assistant vs henchman

assistant

noun
  • A person who assists or helps someone else. 

  • A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program. 

  • Sales assistant. 

adj
  • Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. 

  • Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 

henchman

noun
  • A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests. 

  • A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate. 

  • An assistant member of a criminal gang. 

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