commonplace vs privative

commonplace

adj
  • Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics. 

verb
  • To make a commonplace book. 

  • To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. 

noun
  • A platitude or cliché. 

  • A commonplace book. 

  • Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring. 

  • A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. 

privative

adj
  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • indicating the absence of something 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

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