Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	great_a	reason_n	1,648	5	4.3830	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63187	The tryal of Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery before the peers in Westminster-Hall on Thursday the 4th of April 1678	Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1653-1683, defendant.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1679 (1679)	Wing T2209; ESTC R18066	32,931	31

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