Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	able_a	great_a	reason_n	275	4	4.4424	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45273	The celestial worlds discover'd, or, Conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets written in Latin by Christianus Huygens, and inscrib'd to his brother, Constantine Huygens ...; Kosmotheōros. English	Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.; Huygens, Constantijn, 1628-1697.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3859; ESTC R5990	59,610	157

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