promising vs reflecting

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. 

reflecting

adj
  • Given to introspection; thoughtful, reflective. 

  • That reflects. 

  • Having a component that reflects light. 

  • That has been reflected (of light, sound etc.); undergoing reflection. 

noun
  • An instance of reflection 

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