Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	find_v	great_a	1,455	5	2.6101	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89138	The cure of ruptures in mans bodie, by physical, and chirurgical meanes, and medicines. Whereby any person under forty yeers of age, that is diseased in the bodie, with any kind of rupture or burstness whatsoever, may (by Gods assistance, be perfectly, and unfailingly cured. And to whose persons who are above fortie, of declining age, having passed their naturall vigour, maturitie and full strength, present helpe, and desired ease, assuredly procured, for the whole terme of their remaining life, even to their dying day, by the carefull use of some prescribed meanes, and medicines. / By Levvis Millvvater, dwelling in Peterburgh, at the Minster Gate.	Millwater, Lewis.	1651 (1651)	Wing M2074; Thomason E625_9; ESTC R206468	4,871	8

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