ill-boding vs woeful

ill-boding

adj
  • which bodes evil; portending bad things 

woeful

adj
  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

How often have the words ill-boding and woeful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )