Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	life_n	time_n	2,917	5	3.5617	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00467	A brothers gift containing an hundred precepts, instructing all sorts of people to a godly, honest, and morall life.	Everinden, Humphrey.	1623 (1623)	STC 10601; ESTC S114633	13,510	42

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