corruption vs evil

corruption

noun
  • Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion. 

  • The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. 

  • The product of corruption; putrid matter. 

  • Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, and so on. 

  • The decomposition of biological matter. 

  • The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct. 

  • The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media. 

  • A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, assigned a value judgment as being debased, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. 

  • The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity 

evil

noun
  • Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. 

  • Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. 

adj
  • Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). 

  • Undesirable; harmful; bad practice. 

  • Intending to harm; malevolent. 

  • Morally corrupt. 

  • Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. 

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