Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	city_n	great_a	time_n	1,959	5	3.2298	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61670	A sermon upon Job 29, 15 preached before the judges at a general assise in Hertford when that good and charitable person Rowland Hales, Esquire, was high-sheriff of that shire / by David Stokes.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1667 (1667)	Wing S5721; ESTC R23664	14,503	38

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