Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	withdraw_v	world_n	worldly_a	17	3	7.7826	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13670	A full deuoute and gostely treatyse of the imytacyon and folowynge the blessed lyfe of our moste mercyfull Sauyour cryste compyled in Laten by the right worshypful Doctor Mayster Iohn Gerson: and translate into Englisshe the yere of owre lorde M.d.ii. by maister william Atkynson Doctor of diuinite: at ye speciall request [and] co[m]maundeme[n]t of the full excellent Pryncesse Margarete moder to our souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the. vii. and Countesse of Rychemount and Derby.; Imitatio Christi. English.	Atkinson, William, d. 1509.; Gersen, Giovanni, Abbot of Vercelli, 14th cent., attributed name.; Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471, attributed name.	1517 (1517)	STC 23957; ESTC S107339	132,115	238

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