reason vs suppression

reason

verb
  • To support with reasons, as a request. 

  • To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. 

  • To persuade by reasoning or argument. 

  • To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument. 

  • To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational 

  • To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons. 

  • To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue. 

noun
  • That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause. 

  • An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation. 

  • A premise placed after its conclusion. 

  • A motive for an action or a determination. 

  • Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. 

suppression

noun
  • The act or instance of suppressing. 

  • A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories. 

  • The state of being suppressed. 

  • The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 

  • A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. 

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