eristic vs evil

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

evil

adj
  • Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. 

  • Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). 

  • Undesirable; harmful; bad practice. 

  • Intending to harm; malevolent. 

  • Morally corrupt. 

noun
  • Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. 

  • Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. 

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