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	lord_n	person_n	2,832	5	4.9191	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75591	The Army's declaration: being a true alarum in ansvver to a false and fiery one made lately by a member of that destable [sic] Rump and printed for Livewell Chapman. By a member of the Army now in London.		1660 (1660)	Wing A3712A; Thomason E1019_18; ESTC R208328	7,175	15

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