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	see_v	time_n	5,907	5	3.3926	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86139	A ha! Christmas, This book of Christmas is a sound and good perswasion for gentlemen, and all wealthy men, to keepe a good Christmas. Here is proved the cause of free-will offerings, and to be liberall to the poore, here is sound and good arguments for it, taken and proved out of scripture, as hath been written a long time. / By, T.H.	T. H.	1647 (1647)	Wing H128; Thomason E421_5; ESTC R204668	4,534	8

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