cost vs demean

cost

noun
  • A cottise. 

  • Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic. 

  • A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. 

  • Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. 

verb
  • To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. 

  • To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. 

  • To calculate or estimate a price. 

  • To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. 

demean

noun
  • demesne. 

  • resources; means. 

verb
  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

  • To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

  • To mortify. 

  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

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