gloss vs pericope

gloss

noun
  • An extensive commentary on some text. 

  • A surface shine or luster. 

  • A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance. 

  • A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text. 

  • An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law. 

  • A glossary; a collection of such notes. 

verb
  • To give a gloss or sheen to. 

  • To make (something) attractive by deception 

  • Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”). 

  • To add a gloss to (a text). 

  • To become shiny. 

pericope

noun
  • A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech. 

  • A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages. 

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