encouraging vs sneering

encouraging

noun

  • encouragement 

adj

  • supporting by giving encouragement 

  • giving courage, confidence or hope 

  • auspicious, or bringing good luck 

sneering

noun

  • The act of one who sneers. 

adj

  • contemptful 

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