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	good_a	place_n	990	5	4.1917	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70476	A letter to Dr. Sherlock, in vindication of that part of Josephus's history, which gives an account of Iaddus the high-priest's submitting to Alexander the Great while Darius was living against the answer to the piece intituled, Obedience and submission to the present government.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1691 (1691)	Wing L2686; ESTC R4385	21,381	39

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