affliction vs anguish

affliction

noun

  • A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony. 

  • Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony. 

anguish

noun

  • Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. 

verb

  • To cause to suffer pain. 

  • To suffer pain. 

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