asking vs commanding

asking

noun
  • The act or process of posing a question or making a request. 

  • The marriage banns. 

  • A request, or petition. 

adj
  • That asks; that expresses a question or request. 

commanding

noun
  • The act of giving a command. 

adj
  • Tending to give commands, authoritarian. 

  • Impressively dominant. 

  • Dominating from above, giving a wide view 

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