Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	begin_v	great_a	time_n	1,599	5	3.2122	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49391	The new disease, or, A rational account of the great colds and couhgs [sic] now raging amongst us shewing the true causes of the said distempers, and approved remedies for their speedy cure : together with the author's solemn invitation to all that shall escape those maladies, to come and dine with him Christmas next / by J.L. student in physick and astrology.	J. L.	1676 (1676)	Wing L34; ESTC R30926	3,986	8

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