hasten vs hurry

hasten

verb
  • To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. 

  • To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. 

  • To move or act in a quick fashion. 

hurry

verb
  • Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. 

  • To cause to be done quickly. 

  • To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. 

  • To do things quickly. 

  • To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. 

  • To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway. 

noun
  • Rushed action. 

  • Urgency. 

  • an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. 

  • A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation. 

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