attorney vs proctor

attorney

verb
  • To work as a legal attorney. 

  • To provide with a legal attorney. 

noun
  • A solicitor. 

  • An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf. 

  • An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty. 

  • Clusia spp. 

  • A prosecutor 

  • A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession. 

proctor

verb
  • to manage as an attorney or agent 

  • to function as a proctor 

noun
  • A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator. 

  • A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts. 

  • A procurator or manager for another. 

  • A representative of the clergy in convocation. 

  • An official at any of several older universities. 

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