eristic vs hostile

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. 

hostile

adj
  • Aggressive; antagonistic. 

  • Of a hostile takeover. 

  • Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure. 

  • Unwilling. 

noun
  • An enemy. 

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