Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	see_v	son_n	4,354	5	4.9852	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42674	An impartial disquisition, how far conquest gives the conqueror a title	Ghest, Edmund.	1688 (1688)	Wing G634; ESTC R28401	11,429	9

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