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	reason_n	1,519	5	4.9993	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42500	The bloudy Babylon: or, A collection of some particulars concerning the persecution raging in France against the Protestants from the peace of Reswick, to the martyrdom of the Reverend Monsieur Brousson, inclusively. In a letter to a lord.	Gaujac, Peter Gally de.	1698 (1698)	Wing G373E; ESTC R210995	22,135	32

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