advocate vs demand

advocate

verb
  • To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session. 

  • To engage in advocacy. 

  • To call a case before itself for decision. 

  • To encourage support for something. 

  • To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. 

noun
  • A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves. 

  • A person who speaks in support of something, or someone. 

  • Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel. 

  • Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor. 

demand

verb
  • To issue a summons to court. 

  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

noun
  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

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