Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	servant_n	wife_n	3,538	5	6.4560	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19457	Of the office of servavntes a boke made in Latine by one Gilbertus Cognatus and newely Englyshed.	Cousin, Gilbert, 1506-1567.; Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1521-1565.	1543 (1543)	STC 5879; ESTC S109818	10,836	46

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