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	power_n	supreme_a	1,645	5	8.3158	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29503	Six sermons preached before the late incomparable princess Queen Mary, at White-Hall with several additions and large annotations to the discourse of justification by faith / by George Bright ...	G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing B4675; ESTC R36514	108,334	272

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