derision vs laurel

derision

noun
  • Something to be derided; a laughing stock. 

  • Act of treating with disdain. 

laurel

verb
  • To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath. 

  • To enwreathe. 

  • To award top honours to. 

noun
  • An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel. 

  • A crown of laurel. 

  • Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils. 

  • Honor, distinction, fame. 

  • Any plant of the family Lauraceae. 

  • Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels. 

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