Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	call_v	time_n	word_n	2,121	5	3.9897	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26086	An essay in defence of the female sex in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. : in a letter to a lady / written by a lady.	Astell, Mary, 1668-1731.; Drake, Judith, fl. 1696-1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing A4058; ESTC R11541	60,271	178

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