commencement vs ending

commencement

noun
  • The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; the beginning. 

  • The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others. 

  • A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university. 

ending

noun
  • A termination or conclusion. 

  • The last part of something. 

  • The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). 

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