Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	love_n	love_v	son_n	2,651	5	6.0327	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04963	Devout entertainments of a Christian soule. Composed in French by the R.F. I.H. Quarre, P. of the Oratory of Jesus, and D.D. Translated in English by J.M. of W. Prisoner in the Tower of London.	Quarré, Jean-Hugues, 1580-1656.; Winchester, John Paulet, Earl of, 1598-1675.	1648 (1648)	Wing Q146A; ESTC R182305	43,124	205

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