Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	world_n	write_n	year_n	14	3	4.1665	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34970	Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Catholick church by Doctour Stillingfleet and the imputation refuted and retorted / by S.C. a Catholick ...	Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.; Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1672 (1672)	Wing C6898; ESTC R1090	75,544	216

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