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	lord_n	word_n	2,981	5	3.8029	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30057	A sermon preached at the Cathedral-Church of Hereford on May the 29th, 1684 being the anniversary day of His late Majesties birth and happy restauration, at a feast then first instituted by some of the loyal inhabitants of that country / by Richard Bulkeley ...	Bulkeley, Richard, 1657 or 8-1702.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5406; ESTC R3336	17,961	32

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