Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	child_n	great_a	womb_n	2,712	5	9.4750	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08865	An epistle of sai[n]t Bernarde, called the golden epistle, whiche he se[n]t to a yo[n]g religyous man whom he moche loued. And after the sayd epistle, foloweth four reuelations of Saint Birget; Epistola de perfectione vitae. English	Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153.; Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, ca. 1303-1373. aut; Hilton, Walter, d. 1396. Scala perfectionis. aut	1535 (1535)	STC 1915.5; ESTC S108404	15,857	48

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