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	love_n	3,006	5	5.2017	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62943	An encomiastck, or, elegiack enumeration of the noble atchievements, and unparallel'd services, done at land and sea, by that truly honourable Generall Robert Blake Esq., late one of his Highnes's Generalls at sea, who after nine years indefatigable service in that high employment, exchanged this earthly tabernacle, for an eternall house, not made with hands, blessedly dying in the Lord, in Plimouth Sound September the seventh, 1657, aged 59	G. T. (George Tooke), 1595-1675.	1658 (1658)	Wing T1897; ESTC R4791	8,713	29

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