ending vs preparation

ending

noun
  • A termination or conclusion. 

  • The last part of something. 

  • The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). 

preparation

noun
  • The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day. 

  • A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared. 

  • The state of being prepared; readiness. 

  • Devotional exercises introducing an office. 

  • Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano. 

  • The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance. 

  • The act of preparing or getting ready. 

  • A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen. 

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