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	great_a	think_v	1,609	5	3.8252	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45635	Two essays of love and marriage being a letter written by a gentleman to his friend, to disswade him from love and an answer thereunto by another gentleman, together with some characters and other passages of wit / written by private gentlemen for recreation.	J. H.; A. B.	1657 (1657)	Wing H84; ESTC R14574	23,688	130

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