Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	son_n	2,571	5	5.5290	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16360	A deuoute epystle of treaty for them that ben tymorouse and fearefull in conscience whiche treatyse yf yt be well red ouer [and] folowyd wyll brynge the reders out of all scrupulosite of conscience and seruyle feare, [and] brynge them to the holy feare and loue of almyghty God. Compyled by a brother of Syon (called wyllyam Bonde a Bacheler of Diuinitie) on whose soule Jesu haue mercy... .; Directory of conscience	Bonde, William, fl. 1526-27.	1534 (1534)	STC 3276; ESTC S110744	30,541	54

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