laud vs psalmody

laud

noun
  • Hymn of praise. 

  • Praise or glorification. 

  • A prayer service following matins. 

verb
  • To praise; to glorify. 

psalmody

noun
  • The singing or the writing of psalms. 

  • A collection of psalms. 

verb
  • To celebrate in psalms. 

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