milk-and-water vs privative

milk-and-water

noun

  • Something insipid or mawkish. 

adj

  • Insipid, wishy-washy, weak. 

privative

noun

  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

adj

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

  • indicating the absence of something 

How often have the words milk-and-water and privative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )