esquire vs partner

esquire

noun
  • A lawyer. 

  • A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public. 

  • A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight. 

  • A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon. 

  • An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name. 

partner

noun
  • A member of a business or law partnership. 

  • A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond. 

  • Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis. 

  • Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance. 

  • One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass. 

  • One of each halves of a pair of someone or something that belongs together. 

  • A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period. 

verb
  • To join as a partner. 

  • To work or perform as a partner. 

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