predominate vs primal

predominate

adj
  • Predominant. 

verb
  • To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size. 

  • To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole. 

  • To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh. 

primal

adj
  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

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