Selected quad for the lemma: child_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	year_n	young_a	zealous_a	19	3	8.1613	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45954	The intrigues of the Court of Rome for these seven or eight years past written originally by a French gentleman who lived with a publick character several years at that court ; now rendered into English.	J. M. D.	1679 (1679)	Wing I278; ESTC R27441	78,507	199

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