Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	abbey_n	abbot_n	choose_v	27	3	7.1706	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58086	Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.; Expositiones terminorum Legum Anglorum. English and French.	Rastell, John, d. 1536.	1685 (1685)	Wing R292; ESTC R201044	504,073	1,347

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