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
A49330	The history of the life & martyrdom of St. George, the titular patron of England with his conversion of Arabia by killing of a dreadful dragon, and delivering the kings daughter / by Thomas Lowick, Gent.	Lowick, Thomas, b. 1582.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3320; ESTC R3896	21,998	62

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