lowering vs nonpositive

lowering

adj
  • That lowers or frowns. 

  • Dark and menacing. 

  • Lurking, skulking, menacing. 

noun
  • The act of something being lowered. 

nonpositive

adj
  • Not positive. 

  • Not positive; either zero or negative. 

noun
  • Any value that is not positive. 

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