enable vs grant

enable

verb
  • To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. 

  • To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like. 

  • To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior. 

  • To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device). 

  • To affirm; to make firm and strong. 

  • To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse. 

  • To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. 

grant

verb
  • To assent; to consent. 

  • To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. 

  • to give (permission or wish) 

  • To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true. 

noun
  • The yielding or admission of something in dispute. 

  • The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. 

  • The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. 

  • A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government. 

  • An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like). 

  • The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made. 

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