demean vs praise

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. 

praise

verb
  • To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. 

noun
  • Commendation; favourable representation in words. 

  • Worship. 

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