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	prince_n	5,911	5	5.4840	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90084	News from New-England: in a letter written to a person of quality, wherein is a true account of the present state of that countrey, with respect to the late revolution, and the present war with the Indians there. : Together with a relation of a late and bloody fight between the English and the Indians, wherein the latter were routed : As also of a pretended miracle of the French Jesuits in that part of the world : Licens'd Febr. 27. 1689. J.F.		1690 (1690)	Wing N983A; ESTC R180932	3,926	2

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