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	sin_n	world_n	2,522	5	4.6350	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12480	Six sermons upon severall occasions preached before the King, and elsewhere: by that late learned & reverend divine John Donne, Doctour in divinitie, and Dean of S. Pauls, London.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 7056; ESTC S109990	89,403	184

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