endowment vs taking

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. 

taking

noun
  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

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