approve vs demean

approve

verb
  • To consider worthy (to); to be pleased (with); to accept. 

  • To officially sanction; to ratify; to confirm; to set as satisfactory. 

  • To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit — said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor. 

  • To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of. 

demean

verb
  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

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

  • To mortify. 

noun
  • resources; means. 

  • demesne. 

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