encourage vs hold up

encourage

verb
  • To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. 

  • To spur on, strongly recommend. 

  • To foster, give help or patronage 

hold up

verb
  • To support or lift. 

  • To wait or delay. 

  • To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement. 

  • To rob at gunpoint. 

  • To impede; detain. 

  • (Of an artistic work) To continue to be seen as good, to avoid seeming dated. 

  • To withstand; to stand up to; to survive. 

  • To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground. 

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