Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	best_a	cause_n	great_a	166	4	2.0875	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64879	A sermon preached at Clonmell, on Sunday the sixteenth of September, 1683 at the assizes held for the county palatine of Tipperary / by Jo. Vesey ...	Vesey, John, 1636-1716.	1683 (1683)	Wing V281; ESTC R6797	12,340	24

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