favor vs grant

favor

noun
  • Goodwill; benevolent regard. 

  • A small gift; a party favor. 

  • Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. 

  • A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). 

  • Partiality; bias 

  • The object of regard; person or thing favoured. 

verb
  • To resemble; especially, to look like (another person). 

  • To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward. 

  • To look upon fondly; to prefer. 

  • To use more often. 

  • To encourage, conduce to 

  • To treat with care. 

grant

noun
  • The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon. 

  • The yielding or admission of something in dispute. 

  • The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission. 

  • A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government. 

  • An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like). 

  • The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made. 

verb
  • To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. 

  • to give (permission or wish) 

  • To assent; to consent. 

  • To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true. 

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