battling vs belligerent

battling

adj
  • Fertile. 

  • Nourishing; fattening. 

noun
  • A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening. 

  • That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil. 

belligerent

adj
  • Eager to go to war, warlike. 

  • Engaged in warfare, warring. 

  • Of or pertaining to war. 

  • Uncooperative. 

  • Aggressively hostile, eager to fight. 

  • Acting violently towards others. 

noun
  • A state or other armed participant in warfare 

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