in the clear vs righteous

in the clear

prep
  • Not guilty or not suspected of wrongdoing. 

  • Transmitted without encryption or scrambling. 

  • No longer in danger. 

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 in the clear and righteous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )