modality vs tone

modality

noun
  • The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood 

  • The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory). 

  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste) 

  • The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations. 

  • The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes. 

  • The quality of being limited by a condition. 

  • A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre. 

  • The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode. 

  • The fact of being modal. 

  • A method of diagnosis or therapy. 

tone

noun
  • The manner in which speech or writing is expressed. 

  • The quality of being respectable or admirable. 

  • The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese. 

  • The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice. 

  • A specific pitch. 

  • (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody. 

  • The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. 

  • a gun 

  • The shade or quality of a colour. 

  • The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours. 

  • The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus. 

  • (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second. 

  • Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli. 

  • The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.). 

pron
  • the one (of two) 

verb
  • to change the colour of 

  • to give a particular tone to 

  • to utter with an affected tone. 

  • to make (something) firmer 

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