alarm bell vs monition

alarm bell

noun
  • A sudden awareness of danger. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see alarm, bell. 

monition

noun
  • A sign of impending danger; an omen. 

  • A caution or warning. 

  • A legal notification of something. 

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