abject vs upright

abject

adj
  • Lower than nearby areas; low-lying. 

  • Complete; downright; utter. 

  • Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile. 

  • Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable. 

noun
  • A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class. 

upright

adj
  • Vertical; erect 

  • Greater in height than breadth. 

  • Of good morals; practicing ethical values. 

  • Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft. 

  • In its proper orientation; not overturned. 

noun
  • An upright piano. 

  • An upright arcade game cabinet. 

  • A leg 

  • A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. 

  • A goal post. 

  • Any vertical part of a structure. 

adv
  • In or into an upright position. 

verb
  • To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). 

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