Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	church_n	king_n	religion_n	1,481	5	5.4575	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26827	A sermon preached at Bury St. Edmonds before the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of Norwich, at the third session of His Lordship's primary visitation holden there on Wednesday May 5th, 1668 by Michael Batt ...	Batt, Michael, 1653-1706.	1686 (1686)	Wing B1145; ESTC R20079	13,966	42

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