hostile vs unnoble

hostile

adj
  • Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure. 

  • Of a hostile takeover. 

  • Aggressive; antagonistic. 

  • Unwilling. 

noun
  • An enemy. 

unnoble

adj
  • Not noble; ignoble; base. 

  • Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily. 

verb
  • To make (someone or something) no longer noble 

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