promising vs wondrous

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. 

wondrous

adj
  • Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous. 

adv
  • In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously. 

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