culmination vs deathblow

culmination

noun
  • Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc. 

  • The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit. 

  • Endpoint (usually good) arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period , usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of something. 

  • A ceremony marking the completion of studies at an elementary school, middle school or junior high school, the term "graduation" being reserved for high school. 

deathblow

noun
  • A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace. 

  • Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback. 

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