encomium vs ovation

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. 

ovation

noun
  • Prolonged enthusiastic applause. 

  • A (ceremony for the) recognition of some achievement. 

  • A victory ceremony of less importance than a triumph. 

verb
  • To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause). 

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