eristic vs tendentious

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. 

tendentious

adj
  • Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one. 

  • Implicitly or explicitly slanted. 

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