Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	city_n	family_n	tribe_n	2,199	5	10.5672	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14353	Most learned and fruitfull commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, professor of diuinitie in the schole of Tigure, vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes wherin are diligently [and] most profitably entreated all such matters and chiefe common places of religion touched in the same Epistle. With a table of all the common places and expositions vpon diuers places of the scriptures, and also an index to finde all the principall matters conteyned in the same. Lately tra[n]slated out of Latine into Englishe, by H.B.; In epistolam S. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos commentarii doctissimi. English	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Billingsley, Henry, Sir, d. 1606.	1568 (1568)	STC 24672; ESTC S117871	1,666,362	944

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