offense vs pique

offense

noun
  • The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure. 

  • A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense. 

  • An affront, injury, or insult. 

  • The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense. 

  • A crime or sin. 

pique

noun
  • Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride. 

  • Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute. 

  • In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. 

verb
  • To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest. 

  • To score a pique against (someone). 

  • To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest). 

  • To pride (oneself) on something. 

  • To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend. 

  • To take pride in. 

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