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	great_a	see_v	1,615	5	3.0323	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96840	A vvonder in Stafford-shire; or, A Staffordshire wonder. Of a strange and horrible apparition of the divell, appearing to one James Fisher a phrenatick neare Brummingham late in the night, in the shape of one of his brethren as hee was going to one of their meeting places. Together with their severall discourses and disputes betwixt this phrenatick and the divell, to the shame and terrour of all other sectarians. Being published as a warning-piece to all other people to beware that they are not seduced into such eronious and damnable opinions. Being testified by Mr. John Hill, and Mr. Francis Collins, and one Mr. Peck living in the towne of Brummingham, besides many hundreds more, which for brevity sake we omit.	Hill, John, Mr.; Collins, Francis, Mr.; Peck, Mr.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3358; Thomason E1085_10; ESTC R31364	5,220	8

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