Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	witness_v	word_n	write_v	67	3	4.8684	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91788	An apology for the present government, and governour: with an answer to severall objections against them, and twenty queries propounded for those who are unsatisfied, to consider, and answer, if they please. / By Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing R1403; Thomason E812_18; ESTC R207900	10,602	15

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