fawning vs proud

fawning

adj
  • Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile. 

noun
  • Servile flattery. 

proud

adj
  • Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. 

  • Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. 

  • standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic. 

  • Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride. 

  • Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. 

  • That makes one feel proud (of something one did) 

  • Standing out or raised; swollen. 

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