fakir vs pauper

fakir

noun
  • A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. 

  • Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. 

  • An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. 

pauper

noun
  • One who is extremely poor. 

  • One living on or eligible for public charity. 

verb
  • To make a pauper of; to drive into poverty. 

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