Selected quad for the lemma: daughter_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
daughter_n	die_v	son_n	succeed_v	10,853	5	9.7585	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67859	The new history of Count Zosimus, sometime advocate of the treasury of the Roman Empire with the notes of the Oxford edition, in six books : to which is prefixed Leunclavius's Apology for the author : newly Englished.; Historia nova. English	Zosimus.; Leunclavius, Johannes, 1533?-1593. Apologia pro Zosimo. English.	1684 (1684)	Wing Z16; ESTC R8792	190,775	458

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