castoff vs destitute

castoff

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

destitute

adj
  • Lacking something; devoid 

  • lacking money; poor, impoverished 

verb
  • To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc. 

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