humble vs servile

humble

adj
  • Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest. 

  • Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming. 

verb
  • To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. 

  • To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of 

noun
  • An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject. 

servile

adj
  • Slavish or submissive. 

  • Of or pertaining to a slave. 

  • Not belonging to the original root. 

  • Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune. 

noun
  • A slave; a menial. 

  • An element which forms no part of the original root. 

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