demean vs humble

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. 

humble

verb
  • To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. 

  • To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of 

adj
  • Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming. 

  • Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest. 

noun
  • An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. 

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