celebrate vs gloat

celebrate

verb
  • To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event. 

  • To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites. 

  • To extol or honour in a solemn manner. 

  • To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly. 

gloat

verb
  • To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. 

  • To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. 

noun
  • An act or instance of gloating. 

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