Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	church_n	matter_n	1,711	5	5.4480	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10080	An expedient to extricate one's self out of the guilt of schism, and enter effectually into a virtual catholick communion, without participation in any corruptions, notwithstanding any unreasonable terms of communion, which might otherwise keep him out. In a letter to a friend.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5426A; ESTC N65783	3,798	4

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