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2. Verb. (third-person singular of cause) ¹

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Definition of Causes

1. cause [v] - See also: cause

Lexicographical Neighbors of Causes

Literary usage of Causes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"ai lit? ; their From the consideration of these causes, it appears necessary we shou'd make a new distinction in the causes of the passion, betwixt that ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"Several of the causes which contribute to maintain the institutions of ... ACCIDENTAL OR PROVIDENTIAL causes WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE ..."

3. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Cabot Lodge (1888)
"My last paper assigned several reasons why the safety of the people would be best secured by union against the danger it may be exposed to by just causes of ..."

4. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"But ^e quantity of pleasure and pain runs not causes. uniformly in ... This may be either general, referring to the sum of the causes that act upon him ..."

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