encouragement vs sorrow

encouragement

noun
  • The feeling of being encouraged 

  • Words or actions that increase someone's confidence 

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

  • The act of encouraging 

sorrow

noun
  • unhappiness, woe 

  • (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. 

verb
  • To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. 

  • To feel or express grief. 

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