glee vs mercy

glee

noun
  • Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune. 

  • Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. 

  • An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry. 

verb
  • To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song). 

mercy

noun
  • A blessing; something to be thankful for. 

  • Instances of forbearance or forgiveness. 

  • Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate. 

  • Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another. 

  • A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion. 

  • A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in. 

verb
  • To feel mercy 

  • To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy 

intj
  • Expressing surprise or alarm. 

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