Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	natural_a	nature_n	4,625	5	5.6875	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40582	A Full and true relation of a comet or blazing-star, that lately appeared, and was seen by many who are eye-witnesses thereof, in this city of London, on the 28th and 29th of July last with many weighty observations upon the same.		1679 (1679)	Wing F2314; ESTC R16220	3,543	6

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