cohesion vs colligation

cohesion

noun
  • Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text. 

  • Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant. 

  • Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together. 

  • State of cohering, or of working together. 

  • Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together. 

colligation

noun
  • The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence. 

  • A binding together. 

  • The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts. 

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