hardship vs spite

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. 

spite

verb
  • To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart. 

  • To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. 

noun
  • Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice 

prep
  • Notwithstanding; despite. 

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