Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	grant_v	prohibition_n	1,517	5	11.8673	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42380	The compleat constable directing all [brace] constables, headboroughs, tithingmen, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and scavengers in duty of their several offices according to the power allowed them by the laws and statutes, continued to this present time, 1692 : also directions for the London constables, to which is added a treatise of warrants and commitments proper for the knowledge of all constables, &c.	Gardiner, Robert.	1692 (1692)	Wing G238B; ESTC R40879	79,778	167

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