handsome vs unnoble

handsome

adj
  • Generous or noble in character. 

  • Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly 

  • Good, appealing, appropriate. 

  • Attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect. 

  • Fine, clear and bright. 

  • Ample; moderately large. 

  • Statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way. 

  • Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate. 

unnoble

adj
  • Not noble; ignoble; base. 

  • Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily. 

verb
  • To make (someone or something) no longer noble 

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