encouragement vs jinx

encouragement

noun
  • Words or actions that increase someone's confidence 

  • Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive 

  • The feeling of being encouraged 

  • The act of encouraging 

jinx

noun
  • A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck. 

  • A hex; an evil spell. 

intj
  • Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously. 

verb
  • To cast a spell on. 

  • To bring bad luck to. 

  • To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically. 

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