Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	think_v	1,468	5	3.8318	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25257	Britannia victrix, or, The triumphs of the Royal Navy in the late victorious ingagement with the French fleet May, 1692 : a pindarick poem.	Ames, Richard, d. 1693.	1692 (1692)	Wing A2975A; ESTC R40281	7,233	18

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