mendicant vs pariah

mendicant

noun
  • A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living. 

  • A pauper who lives by begging. 

adj
  • Depending on alms for a living. 

  • Of or pertaining to a beggar. 

  • Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living. 

pariah

noun
  • A similarly despised group of people or species of animal. 

  • Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society. 

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