objection vs reply

objection

noun
  • The act of objecting. 

  • A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to). 

  • An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party. 

intj
  • An assertion that a question or statement is in violation of the rules of the court. 

reply

noun
  • A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. 

  • Something given in reply. 

  • A counterattack. 

  • A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer. 

  • The answer of a figure. 

verb
  • To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. 

  • To act or gesture in response. 

  • To repeat something back; to echo. 

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