demean vs elevate

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. 

elevate

verb
  • To confer honor or nobility on (someone). 

  • To raise (something) to a higher position. 

  • To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things. 

  • To promote (someone) to a higher rank. 

  • To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value. 

  • To increase the intensity or degree of (something). 

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