ambulant vs prodigal

ambulant

adj
  • Able to walk. 

  • Designed for use by somebody with a disability that impairs, but does not prevent, walking. 

noun
  • A patient who is able to walk. 

prodigal

noun
  • A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel. 

adj
  • Wastefully extravagant. 

  • Profuse, lavishly abundant. 

  • Yielding profusely, lavish. 

  • Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal. 

  • Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment. 

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