Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34578	Horace, a French tragedy of Monsieur Corneille Englished by Charles Cotton, esq.; Horace. English	Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1671 (1671)	Wing C6312; ESTC R19415	40,624	86

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