citation vs sentence

citation

noun
  • An official summons or notice given to a person to appear. 

  • The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing. 

  • A quotation with attached bibliographical details demonstrating the use of a particular lexical item in a dictionary, especially a dictionary on historical principles. 

  • An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference. 

  • Enumeration; mention. 

  • A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law. 

  • The passage or words quoted; a quotation. 

  • A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement. 

  • The paper containing such summons or notice. 

sentence

noun
  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. 

  • The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. 

  • A formula with no free variables. 

verb
  • To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. 

  • To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. 

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