promising vs well-pleased

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. 

well-pleased

adj

  • Highly gratified or satisfied. 

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