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	great_a	life_n	1,451	5	4.1995	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55874	The Primitive Christians bearing their testimony for God in times of persecution being some sentences of Tertullian and others taken out of a book called The mirrour of martyrs ...	Cotton, Clement. Mirrour of martyrs.	1688 (1688)	Wing P3470; ESTC R24069	5,598	4

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