accolade vs recognition

accolade

noun
  • An expression of approval; praise. 

  • An embrace of greeting or salutation. 

  • An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. 

  • Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. 

  • Synonym of curly bracket 

  • A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword. 

  • A brace used to join two or more staves. 

  • A special acknowledgment; an award. 

verb
  • To embrace or kiss in salutation. 

  • To confer praise or awards on. 

  • To confer a knighthood on. 

recognition

noun
  • Honour, favourable note, or attention. 

  • Acceptance as valid or true. 

  • The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity). 

  • A return of the feu to the superior. 

  • Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country. 

  • The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others. 

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