Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	work_v	worthy_a	write_v	30	3	4.8732	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28613	The cities great concern in this case of question of honour and arms whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry discoursed : with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth.	Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3505; ESTC R37123	30,025	126

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