offensive vs sortie

offensive

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

adj
  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

sortie

noun
  • An attacking move. 

  • An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth. 

  • An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft. 

  • An act of venturing out to do a task, etc. 

  • An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally. 

  • An act of trying to enter a new field of activity. 

  • Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”) 

  • A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session. 

verb
  • To carry out a sortie; to sally. 

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