pliant vs submissive

pliant

adj
  • Easily influenced; tractable. 

  • Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking 

submissive

adj
  • Meekly obedient or passive. 

noun
  • One who submits. 

  • One who submits to a dominant partner in BDSM practices. 

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