commitment vs committal

commitment

noun
  • Perpetration as in a crime or mistake. 

  • The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail. 

  • The trait of sincerity and focused purpose. 

  • The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. 

  • State of being pledged or engaged. 

  • Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution. 

  • Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially 

  • Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons. 

  • Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date. 

committal

noun
  • The act of perpetrating an offence. 

  • The act of entrusting something to someone. 

  • The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. 

  • The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation. 

adj
  • Of or relating to commitment. 

  • Of or relating to a committee. 

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