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	think_v	3,397	5	3.7699	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25262	Fatal friendship, or, The Drunkards misery being a satyr against hard drinking / by the author of The search after Claret.	Ames, Richard, d. 1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing A2978; ESTC R9803	8,877	32

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