Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_v	know_v	see_v	1,229	5	2.8767	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89212	A Modest account of the wicked life of that grand impostor Lodowick Muggleton wherein are related all the remarkable actions he did, and all the strange accidents that have befallen him, ever since his first coming to London to this 25th of Jan. 1676 : also a particular of those reasons which first drew him to these damnable principles : with several pleasant stories concerning him, proving his commission to be but counterfeit, and himself a cheat, from divers expressions which have fallen from his own mouth.		1676 (1676)	Wing M2350; ESTC R42785	3,939	4

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