calamity vs privation

calamity

noun
  • The distress that results from some disaster. 

  • An event resulting in great loss. 

privation

noun
  • The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation. 

  • The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute. 

  • The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life. 

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