Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wish_v	word_n	work_n	71	3	4.7448	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19065	Christian offices crystall glasse In three bookes. First written in Latine, by that famous and renowned Father, Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millane. Whereunto is added his conuiction of Symmachus the Gentile. A worke tending to the advancement of vertue, and of holinesse: and to shew how much the morality of the Gentiles, is exceeded by the doctrine of Christianity. Translated into English by Richard Humfrey ...; De officiis. English	Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Humfrey, Richard.	1637 (1637)	STC 548; ESTC S100171	335,831	469

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〈◊〉_d stranger_n which_o also_o we_o may_v true_o say_v be_v take_v from_o our_o profession_n for_o the_o hebrew_n do_v call_v their_o adversary_n 5.44_o adversary_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d act_n 2.10_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d eph._n 2.12_o 1._o in_o the_o hebrew_n beside_o ajab_n the_o ordinary_a root_n for_o a_o enemy_n there_o be_v tsar_n which_o be_v not_o much_o dissonant_n to_o gar_o peregrinari_fw-la from_o whence_o she_o a_o stranger_n 2._o the_o lord_n special_a care_n for_o stranger_n deut._n 10.18_o &_o 14.29_o exod._n 23.9_o now_o within_o the_o gate_n of_o israel_n though_o enemy_n before_o may_v be_v the_o reason_n hereof_o 3._o the_o love_n that_o god_n enjoin_v to_o enemy_n math._n 5.44_o allophyli_v that_o be_v in_o a_o latin_a word_n alienigenae_fw-la of_o another_o tribe_n or_o nation_n in_o the_o first_o book_n of_o the_o king_n we_o read_v and_o it_o come_v to_o pass_v in_o those_o day_n that_o the_o people_n of_o other_o nation_n other_o 1_o sam._n 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