amend vs perfect tense

amend

noun
  • An act of righting a wrong; compensation. 

verb
  • To make better; improve. 

  • To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing. 

  • To become better. 

perfect tense

noun
  • A verb form indicating that an action or state has been completed at the present time, in the past, or shall be completed in the future. 

  • Often, specifically, the present perfect tense as distinguished from the past perfect and future perfect tenses. 

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