lavish vs prodigal

lavish

adj
  • Superabundant; excessive. 

  • Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal. 

verb
  • To give out extremely generously; to squander. 

  • To give out to (somebody) extremely generously. 

prodigal

adj
  • Wastefully extravagant. 

  • Profuse, lavishly abundant. 

  • Yielding profusely, lavish. 

  • Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal. 

  • Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment. 

noun
  • A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel. 

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