Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	call_v	great_a	love_v	891	5	5.6800	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29889	The Brownist haerisies confuted, their knavery anatomized, and their fleshly spirits painted in full, in a true history of one Mistris Sarah Miller of Banbury in Oxfordshire wherein is contained the preaching of a barber, his zeale towards this new sister, how the spirit of the flesh moved him, how shee granted, how she fell mad, and how by the mercy of God, she was released of all.		1641 (1641)	Wing B5189; ESTC R23816	3,330	10

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