blessing vs distress

blessing

noun
  • The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval. 

  • A pronouncement invoking divine aid. 

  • Good fortune. 

  • A modern pagan ceremony. 

  • Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward. 

  • A group of unicorns. 

  • A prayer before a meal; grace. 

  • Something someone is glad of. 

distress

noun
  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

verb
  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

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