henpeck vs persist

henpeck

verb
  • To nag persistently. 

noun
  • A man who is meekly subservient to his wife. 

persist

verb
  • To go on stubbornly or resolutely. 

  • To repeat an utterance. 

  • To cause to persist; make permanent. 

  • To continue to exist. 

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