comforting vs grim

comforting

noun

  • The act of giving comfort. 

adj

  • Giving comfort. 

grim

adj

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb

  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

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