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
A80675	A counter-plot against popery. Suggested by way of short considerations, touching the necessity and usefulnesse of some agents, to correspond betwixt the Protestant churches, in matters of publike edification.		1642 (1642)	Wing C6521; Thomason E141_20; ESTC R212746	2,561	8

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