assent vs pettifog

assent

verb
  • To agree to a proposal. 

noun
  • agreement; act of agreeing 

pettifog

verb
  • To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way. 

  • To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick. 

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