care for vs defend

care for

verb
  • To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable. 

  • To attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide. 

defend

verb
  • To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. 

  • To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring. 

  • To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition. 

  • To call a raise from the big blind. 

  • To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. 

  • To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused). 

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