gift vs heritage

gift

noun
  • The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing. 

  • Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. 

  • A talent or natural ability. 

  • Something gained incidentally, without effort. 

verb
  • To give as a gift or donation. 

  • To give away, to concede easily. 

heritage

noun
  • A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory. 

  • Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language. 

  • An inheritance; property that may be inherited. 

  • A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn. 

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