honorable vs ignoble

honorable

adj
  • Worthy of respect; respectable. 

  • A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors. 

noun
  • A politician or other person who bears the title of "honorable". 

ignoble

verb
  • To make ignoble; to bring low. 

adj
  • Not noble; plebeian; common. 

  • Not honorable; base. 

  • Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk. 

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