Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	know_v	time_n	2,767	5	3.5221	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78293	The Iesuits undermining of parliaments and Protestants with their foolish phancy of a toleration, discovered, and censured. Written by William Castle, for the confirmation of wavering Protestants, and the reducing of seduced papists.	Castell, William, d. 1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing C1229; Thomason E124_7; ESTC R4761	12,847	16

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