bane vs irritation

bane

noun
  • A cause of misery or death. 

  • A disease of sheep. 

  • Bone. 

verb
  • To be the bane of. 

  • To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of. 

irritation

noun
  • The state of being irritated 

  • A things or person that annoys 

  • A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action. 

  • The act of irritating or annoying 

  • a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage. 

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