Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abbey_n	found_v	winchester_n	33	3	10.3906	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62734	Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...	Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735.	1695 (1695)	Wing T144; ESTC R668	166,591	415

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