confidence vs dread

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. 

dread

noun
  • A Rastafarian. 

  • Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. 

  • Somebody or something dreaded. 

  • Reverential or respectful fear; awe. 

adj
  • Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. 

verb
  • To be in dread, or great fear. 

  • To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. 

  • To fear greatly. 

  • To anticipate with fear. 

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