Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	believe_v	common_a	great_a	64	3	2.0880	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41842	The great salvation offered and tendered first, by Christ himself, and then by his holy apostles, with the inevitable destruction of all that neglect it : in the sermons, reprinted / by that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. Andrew Gray ...	Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656.	1694 (1694)	Wing G1614; ESTC R39448	32,015	57

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