Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	good_a	great_a	time_n	3,206	5	3.6108	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65469	The profitableness of piety opened in an assize sermon preach'd at Dorchester, March 24 1670/1 : before the Right Honourable Sir Richard Rainsford Knight, one of the judges of the Kings Bench at the request of the Right Worshipful Robert Seymer Esquire, His Majesties High-Sheriff of the County of Dorset / by Richard West, D.D. ...	West, Richard, 1614-1690.; Rainsford, Richard, Sir, 1605-1680.; Seymer, Robert.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1380; ESTC R8228	19,335	34

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