eristic vs offensive

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. 

offensive

adj
  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

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