confidence vs desolation

confidence

noun
  • A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith. 

  • Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret. 

  • Self-assurance. 

desolation

noun
  • The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. 

  • The state of being desolated or laid waste 

  • A place or country wasted and forsaken. 

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