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	marriage_n	wife_n	3,594	5	7.6210	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33015	Elise, or, Innocencie guilty a new romance / translated into English by Jo. Jennings ...; Elise. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Jennings, John, Gent.	1655 (1655)	Wing C413; ESTC R6950	123,482	158

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