bereft vs lacking

bereft

adj
  • Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of. 

  • Pained by the loss of someone. 

lacking

adj
  • Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc). 

noun
  • The absence of something; a lack. 

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