eristic vs prejudicial

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. 

prejudicial

adj
  • Exhibiting prejudice or bias. 

  • Tending to convince based on past history rather than on evidence about the case at hand. 

  • Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious. 

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