provincial vs yeoman

provincial

noun
  • A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. 

  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

adj
  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

yeoman

noun
  • An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder). 

  • A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant. 

  • In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom. 

  • A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s. 

  • A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907. 

  • A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing. 

  • A Yeoman Warder. 

  • A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia. 

  • A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service. 

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