adulation vs ovation

adulation

noun

  • Flattery; fulsome praise. 

ovation

noun

  • A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph. 

  • A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement. 

  • Prolonged enthusiastic applause. 

verb

  • To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause). 

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