commanding vs verb

commanding

noun
  • The act of giving a command. 

adj
  • Tending to give commands, authoritarian. 

  • Impressively dominant. 

  • Dominating from above, giving a wide view 

verb

noun
  • A named command that performs a specific operation on an object. 

  • A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. 

  • An action as opposed to a trait or thing. 

verb
  • To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb. 

  • To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb. 

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