despairing vs expecting

despairing

noun
  • A mood or display of despair. 

adj
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless. 

expecting

adj
  • Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant. 

noun
  • The process by which somebody expects something. 

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