ardency vs fervor

ardency

noun
  • Intensity of feelings. 

  • Intensity of devotion. 

  • Intensity of light. 

  • Intensity of heat or burning. 

fervor

noun
  • An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. 

  • Heat. 

  • A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. 

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