submissive vs tenacious

submissive

adj
  • Meekly obedient or passive. 

noun
  • One who submits. 

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

tenacious

adj
  • Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged. 

  • Having a good memory; retentive. 

  • Holding together; cohesive. 

  • Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive. 

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