palliative vs sedative

palliative

noun
  • Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine. 

adj
  • Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. 

  • Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease. 

sedative

noun
  • An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep. 

adj
  • Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing 

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