Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	court_n	law_n	1,543	5	4.8094	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33903	A defence of The short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage, &c. being a reply to Mr. Congreve's Amendments, &c. and to the vindication of the author of The relapse / by Jeremy Collier ...	Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.	1699 (1699)	Wing C5248; ESTC R20799	69,120	146

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