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	think_v	4,338	5	3.9369	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69782	Colonel Huson's (or the cobler's) confession in a fit of despair, taken in short-hand by the pen of a ready-writer.	Hewson, John, d. 1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5409; ESTC R27170	2,755	11

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