Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wit_n	write_v	youth_n	12	3	8.1539	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19966	The English secretorie VVherin is contayned, a perfect method, for the inditing of all manner of epistles and familiar letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall tytles. In which is layd forth a path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered. Nowe first deuized, and newly published by Angel Daye.	Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.	1586 (1586)	STC 6401; ESTC S119008	166,059	274

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example_n of_o advertisement_n 56_o place_n of_o praise_n or_o dispraise_v 5_o 9.60_o place_n of_o confirmation_n and_o confutation_n 61.62_o a_o example_n lawdatorie_n sole_o touch_v the_o person_n 63_o a_o epistle_n vituperatorie_n touch_v also_o the_o person_n 73_o praise_n and_o dispraise_v of_o the_o deed_n of_o man_n 79.80.81.82_o of_o epistle_n deliberative_a 83_o efficacy_n of_o praise_n 84_o place_n of_o exhortation_n 85.86_o a_o example_n of_o a_o epistle_n exhortatorie_n 87_o a_o letter_n responsorie_a to_o the_o same_o 92_o epistle_n hortatorie_n to_o the_o study_n of_o learning_n 94_o epistle_n hortatorie_n wherein_o the_o exhortation_n be_v lenefy_v 100_o advertisement_n responsorie_a 105_o epistle_n hortatorie_n to_o the_o profession_n of_o arm_n 107_o place_n dehortatorie_n or_o of_o withdraw_v from_o any_o thing_n 113_o a_o example_n dehortatorie_n from_o infidelity_n or_o rebellion_n 114_o difference_n between_o swasorie_n and_o hortatorie_a example_n 121_o a_o example_n swasorie_n wherein_o a_o gentlewoman_n be_v counsel_v to_o marriage_n 122_o place_n swasori●_n or_o of_o persuade_v 126.27.28_o example_n swasorie_n to_o the_o careful_a regard_n of_o one_o brother_n to_o another_o 129_o a_o letter_n responsorie_a to_o the_o same_o epistle_n 132_o epistle_n swasorie_n to_o perseverance_n in_o learned_a and_o profitable_a study_n 135_o place_n diswasorie_n or_o counsel_v from_o a_o thing_n 138.39.40.41.42_o and_o example_n diswasorie_n diswade_v one_o from_o the_o marriage_n of_o his_o daughter_n to_o a_o old_a wealthy_a miser_n 143_o epistle_n diswasorie_n from_o vice_n ingenerall_n 148_o epistle_n diswasorie_n from_o entere_v into_o a_o action_n dangerous_a 151._o place_n conciliatorie_a or_o mean_n to_o induce_v favour_n 158._o epistle_n conciliatorie_a from_o one_o of_o good_a account_n to_o his_o inferior_a 159._o epistle_n conciliatorie_a from_o one_o equal_a to_o a_o other_o 160._o epistle_n responsorie_a annswer_v the_o first_o of_o 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