iron-handed vs servile

iron-handed

adj
  • Strict and dictatorial, exercising firm ruthless control. 

servile

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a slave. 

  • Not belonging to the original root. 

  • Slavish or submissive. 

  • Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune. 

noun
  • A slave; a menial. 

  • An element which forms no part of the original root. 

How often have the words iron-handed and servile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )