praise vs recommend

praise

verb
  • To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. 

noun
  • Commendation; favourable representation in words. 

  • Worship. 

recommend

verb
  • To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice. 

  • To make acceptable; to attract favor to. 

  • To advise, propose, counsel favorably 

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