desire vs relish

desire

noun
  • Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. 

  • Someone or something wished for. 

  • The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. 

  • Motivation. 

verb
  • To require; to demand; to claim. 

  • To miss; to regret. 

  • To want emotionally or sexually. 

  • To want; to wish for earnestly. 

  • To express a wish for; to entreat; to request. 

  • To put a request to (someone); to entreat. 

relish

noun
  • Enjoyment; pleasure. 

  • A pleasant taste. 

  • A quality or characteristic tinge. 

  • A taste (for); liking (of); fondness. 

  • A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment. 

  • In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece. 

  • Something that is greatly liked or savoured. 

verb
  • To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of 

  • To take great pleasure in. 

  • To give a taste to; to cause to taste nice, to make appetizing. 

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