degrade vs profane

degrade

verb
  • To lower in value or social position. 

  • To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. 

  • To reduce in quality or purity. 

profane

verb
  • To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile. 

  • To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate 

adj
  • Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular. 

  • Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain 

  • Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious. 

  • Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing. 

noun
  • A person or thing that is profane. 

  • A person not a Mason. 

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