assert vs support

assert

verb
  • To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to 

  • He would often assert that there was life on other planets. 

  • To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. 

  • To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of. 

  • To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current. 

  • To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code. 

  • To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively. 

noun
  • an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is true. 

support

verb
  • To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain. 

  • To keep from falling. 

  • To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for. 

  • To help, particularly financially. 

  • To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid. 

  • To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to. 

  • To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold. 

  • To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for. 

  • To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain. 

noun
  • An actor playing a subordinate part with a star. 

  • Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold. 

  • Evidence. 

  • Something which supports. 

  • An accompaniment in music. 

  • Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature. 

  • Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed. 

  • Financial or other help. 

  • A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero). 

  • in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set. 

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