Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	believe_v	know_v	sir_n	1,027	5	5.7959	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44807	Remarks upon a pamphlet stiled, A letter to a dissenter, &c. in another letter to the same dissenter.	Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1687 (1687)	Wing H318; ESTC R21462	8,285	14

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