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	speak_v	word_n	2,711	5	3.7885	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04512	A sermon of Saint Chrysostome, wherein besyde that it is furnysshed with heuenly wisedome [and] teachinge, he wonderfully proueth, that no man is hurted but of hym selfe: translated into Englishe by the floure of lerned menne in his tyme, Thomas Lupsette Londoner; Quod nemo laeditur ab alio. English	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530. aut	1542 (1542)	STC 14639; ESTC S107812	26,107	62

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