faithful vs indirect

faithful

noun
  • Someone or something that is faithful or reliable. 

  • The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause. 

adj
  • Consistent with reality. 

  • Reliable; worthy of trust. 

  • Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause. 

  • Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory. 

  • Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner. 

  • Having faith. 

indirect

noun
  • An indirect cost. 

  • An indirect radiator 

adj
  • Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result 

  • Not focused straight at the target or subject, but by more subtle means 

  • Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path 

verb
  • To access by means of indirection; to dereference. 

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