hell-bent vs persistent

hell-bent

adj
  • Recklessly determined to do or achieve (something). 

adv
  • In a recklessly determined manner; determinedly, wholeheartedly. 

persistent

adj
  • Obstinately refusing to give up or let go. 

  • Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it. 

  • Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function 

  • Lasting past maturity without falling off. 

  • non-transient. 

  • Insistently repetitive. 

  • Indefinitely continuous. 

How often have the words hell-bent and persistent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )