groaning vs sorrowing

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

sorrowing

noun
  • The act of feeling sorrow. 

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