confectionary vs sweetmeat

confectionary

noun
  • A candy, sweetmeat; a confection. 

  • Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery. 

adj
  • Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production. 

  • Prepared as a confection. 

sweetmeat

noun
  • A sweet delicacy; a confection. 

  • Sweetheart; darling. 

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