Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	efficient_a	end_n	final_a	2,172	5	9.9792	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43842	Pithanelogia, or, A perswasive to conformity by way of a letter to the dissenting brethren / by a country minister.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2047; ESTC R29478	103,888	196

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res_fw-la jurata_fw-la sit_fw-la illicita_fw-la superiore_fw-la vetante_fw-la obligatio_fw-la tollitur_fw-la irritationem_fw-la quoque_fw-la 429.430.431.551_o lessius_fw-la de_fw-la justitia_fw-la &_o jure_v 429.430.431.551_o tollitur_fw-la quando_fw-la materia_fw-la juramenti_fw-la promissorij_fw-la subest_fw-la alterius_fw-la potestati_fw-la haec_fw-la igitur_fw-la conditio_fw-la ex_fw-la natura_fw-la rei_fw-la vel_fw-la juris_fw-la dispositione_n includitur_fw-la promissioni_fw-la vel_fw-la juramento_fw-la promissioni_fw-la opposito_fw-la nisi_fw-la superior_a cvi_fw-la materia_fw-la subest_fw-la contradicat_fw-la quicquid_fw-la in_o nostra_fw-la potestate_fw-la non_fw-la sit_fw-la 542_o ibid._n p._n 542_o sub_fw-la votum_fw-la non_fw-la cadit_fw-la nec_fw-la quod_fw-la malum_fw-la est_fw-la nemo_fw-la potest_fw-la se_fw-la firmiter_fw-la obligare_fw-la per_fw-la promissionem_fw-la ad_fw-la id_fw-la quod_fw-la est_fw-la in_o potestate_fw-la alterius_fw-la 80._o aquinas_n 22._o q._n 88_o art_n 80._o sed_fw-la solum_fw-la ad_fw-la id_fw-la quod_fw-la est_fw-la omnino_fw-la in_o sva_fw-la potestate_fw-la