laud vs scorch

laud

verb
  • To praise; to glorify. 

noun
  • Praise or glorification. 

  • A prayer service following matins. 

  • Hymn of praise. 

scorch

verb
  • To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence. 

  • To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy 

  • To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively). 

  • To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire. 

  • (To cause) to become scorched or singed 

  • To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it 

noun
  • A slight or surface burn. 

  • Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi. 

  • A discolouration caused by heat. 

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