delight vs grief

delight

noun
  • Joy; pleasure. 

  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure. 

verb
  • To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. 

  • To have or take great pleasure. 

grief

noun
  • Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. 

  • Suffering, hardship. 

  • Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. 

verb
  • To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. 

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