Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	father_n	husband_n	21,731	5	10.2785	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06672	The first part of the nature of a vvoman Fitly described in a Florentine historie. Composed by C.M.	C. M., fl. 1596.; Middleton, Christopher, 1560?-1628, attributed name.	1596 (1596)	STC 17126.5; ESTC S101403	25,105	47

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