honorable vs righteous

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". 

righteous

adj
  • Justified morally. 

  • Free from sin or guilt. 

  • Moral and virtuous, to the point of sanctimony. 

  • Awesome; great. 

verb
  • To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin. 

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