eristic vs searing

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. 

searing

adj
  • damning; critical; scathing 

  • very hot; blistering or boiling 

  • having a sensation of intense sudden heat 

noun
  • cooking food quickly at high temperature 

  • action of the verb to sear 

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