despairing vs grue

despairing

noun
  • A mood or display of despair. 

adj
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless. 

grue

noun
  • A shiver, a shudder. 

  • Nutraloaf, a bland mixture of foods served in prisons. 

  • Any byproduct of a gruesome event, such as gore, viscera, entrails, blood and guts. 

  • A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark. 

adj
  • Of an object, green when first observed before a specified time or blue when first observed after that time. 

  • Green or blue. 

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