promising vs quickwitted

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. 

quickwitted

adj

  • Mentally keen and alert. 

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