operant vs serf

operant

noun
  • An operative person or thing. 

  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

serf

noun
  • A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe. 

  • A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights. 

  • A worker unit. 

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