elaborate vs high-sounding

elaborate

adj
  • Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. 

  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy. 

verb
  • to develop in detail or complexity 

  • (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail 

high-sounding

adj
  • Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived. 

  • Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous. 

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