behave vs deviate

behave

verb
  • To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. 

  • To act in a polite or proper way. 

  • To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. 

deviate

verb
  • To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. 

  • To cause to diverge. 

  • To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray. 

noun
  • A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. 

  • A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value. 

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