Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	command_v	servant_n	unprofitable_a	1,244	5	10.6349	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05222	A dissenter from those (by some) called Foxonian Quakers, having lately put forth a paper for the exaltation of the Lord's Christ, &c. which a certain person having read over again and again, and hoping it may be profitable to many, hath caused it to be reprinted as following, that so it may be more universally spread abroad for its further service.	M. S.	1696 (1696)	Wing S113A; ESTC R183120	7,633	15

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