encomium vs recognition

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. 

recognition

noun
  • Honour, favourable note, or attention. 

  • Acceptance as valid or true. 

  • The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity). 

  • A return of the feu to the superior. 

  • Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country. 

  • The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others. 

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