coercion vs soft-soaping

coercion

noun
  • A specific instance of coercing. 

  • Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. 

  • Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will. 

  • Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. 

  • The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context. 

soft-soaping

How often have the words coercion and soft-soaping occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )