honor vs taint

honor

verb
  • to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone) 

  • to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of 

  • to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.) 

  • to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like) 

noun
  • a privilege 

  • recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful) 

  • a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen 

  • the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point) 

  • the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity 

  • (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank 

  • a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament. 

  • a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended 

  • the privilege of going first 

  • In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack. 

  • the right to play one's ball before one's opponent. 

taint

verb
  • To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. 

  • To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. 

  • To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. 

  • To thrust ineffectually with a lance. 

  • To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it. 

  • To be affected with incipient putrefaction. 

  • To spoil (food) by contamination. 

  • To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks. 

noun
  • A tinge, trace or touch. 

  • A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish. 

  • A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks. 

  • A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. 

  • A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. 

  • An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. 

  • The perineum. 

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