Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	know_v	5,049	5	3.5427	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08899	A dialogue agaynst the tyrannye of the Papistes. Translated out of Latin into Englysse, by E.C.; Dialogus contra papistarum tyrannidem. English.	Haddon, Walter, 1516-1572, attributed name.; Seres, William, d. ca. 1579.; E. C., fl. 1562.	1562 (1562)	STC 19176; ESTC S120121	18,429	52

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