adherents vs following

adherents

following

noun
  • A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after. 

  • A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage. 

  • Vocation; business; profession. 

adj
  • About to be specified. 

  • Blowing in the direction of travel. 

  • Coming next, either in sequence or in time. 

prep
  • After, subsequent to. 

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