abase vs ennoble

abase

verb
  • To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. 

ennoble

verb
  • To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing. 

  • To bestow with nobility, honour or grace. 

How often have the words abase and ennoble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )