backboneless vs craven

backboneless

adj
  • Cowardly, spineless. 

  • Without a backbone; invertebrate. 

craven

adj
  • Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly. 

noun
  • A coward. 

verb
  • To make craven. 

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