Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	power_n	3,921	5	4.7466	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22008	By the King as often as we call to minde the most ioyfull and iust recognition made by the whole body of our realme, in the first session of our high court of Parliament ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1604 (1604)	STC 8361; ESTC S122983	2,845	3

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