ally vs opposition

ally

noun
  • Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature. 

  • A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend. 

  • A person who, or organization which, supports a demographic group subject to discrimination and/or misrepresentation but is not a member of the group; specifically (LGBT), a person who is not a member of the LGBT+ community but is supportive of it. 

  • A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate. 

  • An organism which is related to another organism through common evolutionary origin; specifically, a species which is closely related to another species, usually within the same family. 

  • A person, group, concept, etc., which is associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary; a supporter. 

verb
  • To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty. 

  • Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim. 

  • To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else. 

  • Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature. 

opposition

noun
  • The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate. 

  • A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power. 

  • In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent. 

  • The action of opposing or of being in conflict. 

  • The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth. 

  • An opposite or contrasting position. 

  • A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king. 

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