Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	adversary_n	31	3	7.6933	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04501	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the woorthy man Saint Iohn Chrysostome ... ; turned and put into English, out of an ancient Latine translation, written in velume, by R.W. ...	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Wolcomb, Robert.	1588 (1588)	STC 14630.5; ESTC S2155	51,393	152

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