despairing vs privative

despairing

adj
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless. 

noun
  • A mood or display of despair. 

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 despairing and privative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )