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	word_n	3,386	5	4.6780	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57017	Pantagruel's prognostication certain, true, and infallible for the year everlasting / newly composed ... by Mr. Alcofribas, sewer in chief to Pantagruel ; set forth long since by that famous well-wisher to the mathematicks and doctor in physick, Francis Rabelais ; done in the way and by the tables of that astrologer of the first magnitude, in the Brittish hemisphere, Anglicus ; and now of late translated out of French by Democritus Pseudomantis.; Pantagruéline prognostication. English	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Anglicus.; Democritus Pseudomantis.	1660 (1660)	Wing R106; ESTC R4645	10,753	44

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