cautionary vs forbidding

cautionary

adj
  • Serving to caution or warn; admonitory 

  • Serving to ward off; preventive 

forbidding

adj
  • Appearing to be threatening, unfriendly or potentially unpleasant. 

noun
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition. 

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