gone vs promising

gone

prep
  • Past, after, later than (a time). 

adj
  • Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness. 

  • Dead. 

  • Of an arrow: wide of the mark. 

  • Used with a genitively constructed duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; pregnant. 

  • Doomed, done for. 

  • Away, having left. 

  • Used up. 

  • No longer existing, having passed. 

  • Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline. 

  • Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on. 

promising

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

  • a promising young apprentice 

  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

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