groaning vs lamentation

groaning

noun
  • A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. 

adj
  • Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain. 

  • That groans. 

lamentation

noun
  • A sorrowful cry; a lament. 

  • Specifically, mourning. 

  • The act of lamenting. 

  • A group of swans. 

  • lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge 

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