nonce vs recurring

nonce

adj
  • One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once. 

noun
  • A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children. 

  • A nonce word. 

  • A pedophile. 

  • A stupid or worthless person. 

  • A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterprise 

  • A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks. 

  • The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce). 

recurring

noun
  • A recurrence; a coming round again. 

adj
  • Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely. 

  • Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition. 

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