Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	call_v	great_a	inhabit_v	1,448	5	9.6227	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02334	Two discourses of Master Frances Guicciardin vvhich are wanting in the thirde and fourth bookes of his Historie, in all the Italian, Latin, and French coppies heretofore imprinted; which for the worthinesse of the matter they containe, were published in those three languages at Basile 1561. And are now for the same cause doone into English.; Loci duo. Polyglot	Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.; Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540. Historia d'Italia. Supplements.; Jones, William, fl. 1594-1595.; Jones, William, Sir, 1566-1640.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.	1595 (1595)	STC 12462; ESTC S103518	37,379	145

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