desolate vs unnoble

desolate

verb
  • To abandon or forsake something. 

  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere. 

  • To deprive of inhabitants. 

  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

adj
  • Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. 

  • Barren and lifeless. 

  • Dismal or dreary. 

  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. 

  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

unnoble

verb
  • To make (someone or something) no longer noble 

adj
  • Not noble; ignoble; base. 

  • Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily. 

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