belligerent vs militant

belligerent

adj
  • Of or pertaining to war. 

  • Eager to go to war, warlike. 

  • Engaged in warfare, warring. 

  • Uncooperative. 

  • Aggressively hostile, eager to fight. 

  • Acting violently towards others. 

noun
  • A state or other armed participant in warfare 

militant

adj
  • Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. 

  • Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. 

noun
  • Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. 

  • An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. 

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