activist vs militant

activist

adj
  • Behaving as an activist. 

noun
  • One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change. 

  • One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions. 

militant

adj
  • Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. 

  • Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. 

noun
  • Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. 

  • An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. 

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