rejoinder vs request

rejoinder

verb
  • To issue a rejoinder. 

  • To say as a rejoinder. 

noun
  • The defendant's answer to the replication. 

  • Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement. 

  • A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question. 

  • A response that answers another response. 

request

verb
  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

  • To ask for (something). 

noun
  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

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