consort vs individual

consort

adj
  • of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager 

noun
  • The spouse of a monarch. 

  • A ship accompanying another. 

  • Association or partnership. 

  • A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument. 

  • A husband, wife, companion or partner. 

  • An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc. 

verb
  • To be in agreement. 

  • To associate or keep company (with). 

individual

adj
  • Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. 

  • Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. 

  • Not divisible without losing its identity. 

noun
  • An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class. 

  • A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people. 

  • An element belonging to a population. 

  • A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation. 

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