Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	act_n	day_n	lord_n	1,003	5	4.1260	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13540	A good husband and a good wife layd open in a sermon, preached by Mr Thomas Taylor ... ; and published by Iohn Sedguuicke.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Sedgwick, John, 1600 or 1601-1643.	1625 (1625)	STC 23829; ESTC S1374	15,209	29

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