faithful vs self-sustaining

faithful

adj
  • Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause. 

  • Consistent with reality. 

  • Reliable; worthy of trust. 

  • Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory. 

  • Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner. 

  • Having faith. 

noun
  • Someone or something that is faithful or reliable. 

  • The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause. 

self-sustaining

adj
  • Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent. 

  • Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel. 

  • Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient. 

How often have the words faithful and self-sustaining occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )