Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	beget_v	father_n	son_n	1,941	5	6.0880	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02894	The mirrour of humilitie: or Two eloquent and acute discourses vpon the natiuitie and passion of Christ full of diuine and excellent meditations and sentences. Published first in Latine by the worthy author Daniel Heinsius, and since done into English, by I.H. Master of Arts in Mag. Coll. Oxon.	Heinsius, Daniel, 1580-1655.; Harmar, John, 1594?-1670.	1618 (1618)	STC 13039; ESTC S115181	32,739	106

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