excommunicate vs jinx

excommunicate

noun
  • An excommunicated person. 

verb
  • To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community. 

  • To exclude from any other group; to banish. 

adj
  • Excommunicated. 

jinx

noun
  • A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck. 

  • A hex; an evil spell. 

verb
  • To cast a spell on. 

  • To bring bad luck to. 

  • To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically. 

intj
  • Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously. 

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