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	word_n	2,991	5	3.7261	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73880	The holy love of heauenly vvisdome. With many other godly treatises Newly set forth, perused, and augmented by the author. Translated out of French into English, by Tho. Sto. gent.	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.	1594 (1594)	STC 7373.4; ESTC S125323	170,458	458

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