evangelize vs recruit

evangelize

verb
  • To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote. 

  • To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it. 

  • Coordinate term: proselytize 

  • To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to. 

  • Hypernym: proselytize 

recruit

verb
  • To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc. 

  • To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population. 

  • To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body. 

  • To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster 

noun
  • A hired worker 

  • A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier. 

  • A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population. 

  • A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement. 

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