armor-plated vs hardened

armor-plated

adj
  • Covered with a hard steel plate; especially of vehicles, boats, and defenses. 

hardened

adj
  • Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified. 

  • Inured; toughened. 

  • Firmly established or unlikely to change; inveterate. 

  • Unfeeling; pitiless; callous. 

How often have the words armor-plated and hardened occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )