demean vs prostitute

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. 

prostitute

verb
  • To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes. 

  • To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money. 

noun
  • Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood. 

  • A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood. 

  • A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage. 

adj
  • Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute. 

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