cleanse vs demean

cleanse

noun
  • An act of cleansing; a purification. 

verb
  • To free from dirt; to clean, to purify. 

  • To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge. 

  • To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing. 

demean

noun
  • resources; means. 

  • demesne. 

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 cleanse and demean occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )