eristic vs witherward

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. 

witherward

adj
  • Opposite, opposing; hostile. 

  • Adverse, contrary. 

  • at the witherward side of the year 

noun
  • Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility 

adv
  • Contrary to, against. 

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