jesting vs repartee

jesting

noun

  • joking 

  • bantering; ridicule 

  • mocking 

adj

  • humorous 

  • playful; mocking 

  • facetious 

  • jeering 

repartee

noun

  • A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing. 

  • A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts. 

  • Skill in replying swiftly and wittily. 

verb

  • To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees) 

  • To reply with a repartee 

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