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	part_n	place_n	2,339	5	4.1138	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79775	To the Kings most excellent Majestie. The humble remonstrance and renewed petition of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, from their meeting at Edinburgh, the second day of June. 1643.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1643 (1643)	Wing C4271dA; Thomason E249_27; ESTC R212545	10,494	15

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