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	year_n	youth_n	25	3	7.7767	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41736	The critick written originally in Spanish by Lorenzo Gracian ... ; and translated into English by Paul Rycaut, Esq.; Criticón. English	Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing G1470; ESTC R23428	159,995	290

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