delight vs plague

delight

verb
  • To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. 

  • To have or take great pleasure. 

noun
  • Joy; pleasure. 

  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure. 

plague

verb
  • To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly. 

  • To afflict with a disease or other calamity. 

noun
  • A group of common grackles. 

  • A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. 

  • The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis. 

  • An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. 

  • A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates. 

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