occupant vs publican

occupant

noun
  • The owner or tenant of a property. 

  • A person who occupies an office or a position. 

  • A person who occupies a place. 

  • A person sitting in a car or other vehicle. 

publican

noun
  • The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”). 

  • A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire. 

  • The manager or owner of a hotel. 

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