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	people_n	2,364	5	4.3937	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59110	A Sad and terrible relation of two dreadful earth-quakes the one happening in England ... on the 8th of September, and the other at Jamaco, in the West-Indies, on the 7th of July, 1692, with their dreadful effects ...		1692 (1692)	Wing S245; ESTC R37199	3,562	18

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