lancinating vs shrill

lancinating

adj
  • Sharp, stabbing or piercing. 

shrill

adj
  • High-pitched and piercing. 

  • Sharp or keen to the senses. 

  • Having a shrill voice. 

  • Fierce, loud, strident. 

verb
  • To make a shrill noise. 

noun
  • A shrill sound. 

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