Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	woman_n	worth_n	worthy_a	15	3	7.1296	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03196	The exemplary lives and memorable acts of nine the most worthy women in the vvorld three Iewes. Three gentiles. Three Christians. Written by the author of the History of women.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 13316; ESTC S104033	101,805	245

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