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	justice_n	law_n	1,418	5	4.5140	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35880	A dialogue between Hodge and Heraclitus, or, A character of an informer with his lewd practises layed open / by Goodlove Freeman, Esq.	Freeman, Goodlove.	1682 (1682)	Wing D1313; ESTC R231401	4,074	10

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