Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	womb_n	word_n	write_v	105	3	5.7722	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73323	A fit guest for the Lords table. Or, a treatise declaring the true vse of the Lords Supper Profitable for all communicants, as a preseruatiue against all profanesse and sundry nouell opinions.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1609 (1609)	STC 24308; ESTC S125561	48,877	192

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