Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	accusation_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	41	3	11.2478	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25255	The history of the government of Venice wherein the policies, councils, magistrates, and laws of that state are fully related, and the use of the balloting box exactly described : written in the year 1675 / by the sieur Amelott de la Houssaie ...; Histoire du gouvernement de Venise. English	Amelot de La Houssaie, Abraham-Nicolas, Sieur 1634-1706.	1677 (1677)	Wing A2974; ESTC R14759	189,107	348

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