Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	abraham_n	pray_v	wife_n	257	4	6.6651	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

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