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	know_v	time_n	1,768	5	3.3110	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55971	The proceedings on the King's commissions of the peace, and oyer and terminer, and gaol-delivery of Newgate, held for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, at justice-hall, in the Old-Baily, the 10th. and 13th. days of OCtober, 1688, and in the fourth year of His Majesties reign	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1688 (1688)	Wing P3622; ESTC R21180	7,245	4

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