bombast vs erect

bombast

verb
  • To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad. 

  • To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner. 

noun
  • High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking. 

adj
  • Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent. 

erect

verb
  • To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. 

  • To animate; to encourage; to cheer. 

  • To spin up and align to vertical. 

  • To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. 

  • To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. 

  • To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. 

  • To enter a state of physiological erection. 

  • To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.). 

  • To cause to stand up or out. 

  • To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc. 

adj
  • Having an erect penis. 

  • Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly, especially as the result of stimulation. 

  • Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards. 

  • Watchful; alert. 

  • Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. 

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