assured vs promising

assured

adj
  • Self-confident; self-assured; sure. 

  • Guaranteed; secure. 

noun
  • An insured person. 

promising

adj
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. 

  • a promising young apprentice 

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

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