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	king_n	law_n	5,153	5	5.1808	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70600	Mr. De Labadie's letter to his daughter, Mrs. Delabadie, nurse to the pretended Prince of Wales written in characters and deciphered by Dr. Wallis ... : which said letter is referred to by Mr. Fuller in his two narratives, and is a plain demonstration of that horrid imposture : with reflections upon it, and a full answer to the material objections, in a late pamphlet entituled, The truest account of Mr. Fullers discovery, &c. / by another hand.	Another hand.; Fuller, William, 1670-1717?; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Labadie, James de.; Labadie, Mary Anne de.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2261A; ESTC R10912	12,860	48

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