irregular vs recreant

irregular

noun
  • A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics. 

  • One who does not regularly attend a venue. 

adj
  • without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity 

  • rough 

  • not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal 

  • whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other) 

  • nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations 

  • not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language 

recreant

noun
  • Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor. 

adj
  • Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. 

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