courage vs dismay

courage

noun
  • The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening. 

  • The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude. 

  • The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate. 

dismay

noun
  • A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits 

  • Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. 

verb
  • To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. 

  • To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. 

  • To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy 

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