accolade vs encomium

accolade

noun
  • An expression of approval; praise. 

  • An embrace of greeting or salutation. 

  • An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. 

  • Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. 

  • Synonym of curly bracket 

  • A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword. 

  • A brace used to join two or more staves. 

  • A special acknowledgment; an award. 

verb
  • To embrace or kiss in salutation. 

  • To confer praise or awards on. 

  • To confer a knighthood on. 

encomium

noun
  • Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute. 

  • The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series. 

  • A method within rhetorical pedagogy. 

  • A general category of oratory. 

  • A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue. 

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