laud vs malign

laud

verb
  • To praise; to glorify. 

noun
  • Praise or glorification. 

  • A prayer service following matins. 

  • Hymn of praise. 

malign

verb
  • To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. 

adj
  • Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. 

  • Malevolent. 

  • Malignant. 

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