account vs deem

account

noun
  • An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. 

  • A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. 

  • A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. 

  • Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. 

  • A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. 

  • A bank account. 

  • Profit; advantage. 

  • A record of events; a relation or narrative. 

  • Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. 

verb
  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. 

  • To consider that. 

  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. 

  • To estimate, consider (something to be as described). 

  • To establish the location for someone. 

  • To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). 

  • To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. 

deem

noun
  • An opinion, a judgment, a surmise. 

verb
  • To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account. 

  • To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose. 

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