malevolence vs malice

malevolence

noun
  • Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude. 

  • Hostile attitude or feeling. 

malice

noun
  • Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune. 

  • An intention to do injury to another party, which in many jurisdictions is a distinguishing factor between the crimes of murder and manslaughter. 

verb
  • To intend to cause harm; to bear malice. 

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