flanker vs pretense

flanker

noun
  • A player who plays in the back row of the scrum. 

  • A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage. 

  • A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body. 

pretense

noun
  • An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality. 

  • Intention or purpose not real but professed. 

  • A false or hypocritical profession 

  • An unsupported claim made or implied. 

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