Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	best_a	good_a	great_a	1,021	5	2.2429	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41341	The First part of the history of England extending to the conquest of so much of Britain as was subjected by the Romans : with an introductory preface to the whole / written in the year 1666.		1668 (1668)	Wing F978; ESTC R33319	73,974	104

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