poor vs unnoble

poor

adj
  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

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 poor and unnoble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )