brooding vs dour

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

dour

adj
  • Expressing gloom or melancholy. 

  • Stern, harsh and forbidding. 

  • Unyielding and obstinate. 

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