outward vs professed

outward

adj
  • visible, noticeable 

  • outer; located towards the outside 

  • Tending to the exterior or outside. 

adv
  • Towards the outside; away from the centre. 

noun
  • A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital. 

professed

adj
  • Openly declared or acknowledged. 

  • Admitted to a religious order. 

  • Professing to be qualified. 

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