Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	church_n	communion_n	worship_n	1,432	5	8.0028	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59895	Some seasonable reflections on the discovery of the late plot being a sermon preacht on that occasion / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1683 (1683)	Wing S3366; ESTC R10020	18,258	32

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