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	just_a	law_n	2,761	5	4.7834	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96669	A winding-sheet for traytors: with a discovery of their great and dangerous conspiracies the horrid perfidiousness and treachery of divers usurping tyrants; their Judas-like actings in several countries; their judgements, and self-executions; their s[u]ddain death; the names of such who have both hang'd and drown'd themselves; and the lamentation and confession of Mr. Scot, and divers others of the wicked and cruel judges, who most barbarously and inhumanely murther'd our late gracious soveraign Lord King Charles.		1660 (1660)	Wing W2979C; ESTC R231730	4,349	12

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