Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	see_v	speak_v	word_n	3,025	5	3.9040	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65372	Believers priviledges and duties and the exercise of communicants; holden forth in severall sermons: preached on diverse texts and at severall occasions. By the learned, pious and laborious servant of Jesus Christ, Mr Alexander Wedderburne first minister of the gospell at Forgan in Fife; and thereafter at Kilmarnock in the West. Part first.	Wedderburn, Alexander, d. 1678.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1238; ESTC R219480	104,769	240

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