endowment vs heritage

endowment

noun
  • Something with which a person or thing is endowed. 

  • Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution. 

  • Endowment assurance or pure endowment. 

  • A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife. 

heritage

noun
  • An inheritance; property that may be inherited. 

  • A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. 

  • Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language. 

  • A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn. 

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