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	know_v	let_v	2,518	5	3.8679	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89783	The nineteene propositions cleered, and the practice thereof desired, for the certaine speedy deliverance of city and countrey from feare of sword and famine. By Thomas Nutt.	Nutt, Thomas, 17th cent.	1643 (1643)	Wing N1475; Thomason E65_28; ESTC R8910	5,323	8

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