Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	christian_a	faith_n	life_n	1,074	5	4.4282	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37372	A true relation of a devilish attempt to fire the town of Barnet in the county of Hartford, on Thursday the 16th of this instant October 1679 in a letter to a friend in London.	M. D.	1679 (1679)	Wing D66; ESTC R7099	2,643	4

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