empowered vs palatine

empowered

adj
  • Having been given powers. 

  • Acting with confidence. 

  • Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation. 

noun
  • One who is empowered. 

palatine

adj
  • Subject to palatine authority. 

  • (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. 

  • Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people. 

  • Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone. 

  • Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor. 

  • Synonym of palatial. 

noun
  • The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace. 

  • A feudal lord (ellipsis of count palatine.) or a bishop possessing palatine powers. 

  • A fur cape or stole for women which covers the neck and shoulders. 

  • A palace official, especially in an imperial palace. 

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