cunning vs know

cunning

noun
  • Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity. 

  • The natural wit or instincts of an animal. 

  • The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful. 

  • Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic. 

adj
  • Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. 

know

noun
  • Knowledge; the state of knowing. 

  • Knowledge; the state of knowing; now confined to the fixed phrase ‘in the know’ 

verb
  • To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. 

  • To experience. 

  • To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study. 

  • To be or become aware or cognizant. 

  • To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music). 

  • To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. 

  • To be aware of; to be cognizant of. 

  • To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change. 

  • To have knowledge; to have information, be informed. 

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