bold vs promising

bold

adj
  • Courageous, daring. 

  • Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved. 

  • Pornographic; depicting nudity. 

  • Steep or abrupt. 

  • Full-bodied. 

  • Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface. 

  • Visually striking; conspicuous. 

  • Presumptuous, forward or impudent. 

verb
  • To make (a font or some text) bold. 

promising

adj
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. 

  • a promising young apprentice 

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

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