Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	advantage_n	young_a	youth_n	60	3	8.0876	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50274	The works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.; Works. English. 1680	Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.	1680 (1680)	Wing M129; ESTC R13145	904,161	562

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