assailant vs contrarian

assailant

noun
  • A hostile critic or opponent. 

  • Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally. 

adj
  • Assailing; attacking. 

contrarian

noun
  • A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion. 

  • A financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others. 

adj
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a contrarian. 

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