benign vs mortiferous

benign

adj
  • Not harmful to the environment. 

  • Kind; gentle; mild. 

  • Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent. 

  • mild and favorable 

mortiferous

adj
  • Causing physical death; deadly, fatal, lethal. 

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