discoursing vs telling

discoursing

noun
  • conversation 

telling

noun
  • The act of narration. 

  • The disclosure of information. 

  • Ability to determine. 

adj
  • Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective. 

  • Serving to convince. 

  • Revealing information; bearing significance. 

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