Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	let_v	wife_n	4,137	5	7.9298	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92800	A wedding ring fit for the finger: or, The salve of divinity on the sore of humanity. Laid open in a sermon at a wedding in Edmonton, / by William Secker preacher of the Gospel.	Secker, William, d. 1681?	1658 (1658)	Wing S2254; Thomason E1648_4; ESTC R209103	12,466	54

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