Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	speak_v	word_n	2,857	5	3.9757	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03209	An elegy on the death of that learned, pious, and famous divine, Doctor John Ovven, who dyed the 24th. of August, 1683.		1683 (1683)	Wing E390; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[108]; ESTC R36104	1,190	1

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