brooding vs pertinacious

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

pertinacious

adj
  • Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose. 

  • Stubbornly resolute or tenacious. 

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