confidence vs demur

confidence

noun
  • A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith. 

  • Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret. 

  • Self-assurance. 

demur

noun
  • An act of hesitation as to proceeding; a scruple; also, a suspension of action or decision; a pause, a stop. 

verb
  • To interpose a demurrer. 

  • To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. 

  • To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk 

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