Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	good_a	2,306	5	4.2701	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66253	Preparation for death being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper of which she died.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1687 (1687)	Wing W253; ESTC R5512	22,586	170

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