left-handed vs levorotatory

left-handed

adj
  • Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. 

  • Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule. 

  • Awkward or maladroit. 

  • Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. 

  • Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. 

  • Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo. 

  • Insincere or malicious. 

noun
  • Left-handed people, taken as a whole. 

levorotatory

adj
  • That rotates the plane of polarized light to the left, or anticlockwise. Notation: (−) or formerly lowercase l-. 

How often have the words left-handed and levorotatory occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )