belligerent vs contending

belligerent

noun
  • A state or other armed participant in warfare 

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. 

contending

noun
  • contention 

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