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	law_n	parent_n	4,009	5	8.7116	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29659	The remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke being poems of monarchy and religion : never before printed.	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4900; ESTC R350	71,163	212

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