hardship vs languish

hardship

verb
  • To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships. 

noun
  • Difficulty or trouble; hard times. 

  • A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier. 

languish

verb
  • To live in miserable or disheartening conditions. 

  • To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. 

  • To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful. 

  • To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. 

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