gilded vs resplendent

gilded

adj
  • Having the color or quality of gold. 

  • Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated. 

  • Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold. 

resplendent

adj
  • Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye. 

  • Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic. 

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