high and mighty vs overweening

high and mighty

adj
  • Overbearingly arrogant; ostentatiously self-important or self-aggrandizing. 

  • Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her. 

noun
  • A social or economic group wielding undue power, influence or economic clout. 

overweening

adj
  • Unduly confident; arrogant 

  • Exaggerated, excessive. 

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