Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	father_n	mother_n	5,111	5	7.8086	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37724	Noah's flood, or, The destruction of the world an opera / by Edward Ecclestone ...; Noah's flood. Libretto	Ecclestone, Edward, fl. 1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing E140; ESTC R17281	36,863	70

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