Cynic vs lowering

Cynic

adj
  • Of or relating to the Cynics. 

noun
  • A member of a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue. 

lowering

adj
  • Lurking, skulking, menacing. 

  • Dark and menacing. 

  • That lowers or frowns. 

noun
  • The act of something being lowered. 

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