Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	reason_n	2,746	5	5.3703	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36457	A sermon preached before the Queen at White-Hall, February the fifteenth, 1690/1 by Henry Dove ....	Dove, Henry, 1640-1695.	1691 (1691)	Wing D2052; ESTC R3520	12,590	34

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