pain vs reprieve

pain

verb
  • To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. 

  • To feel pain; to hurt. 

  • To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. 

noun
  • An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. 

  • The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress 

  • An annoying person or thing. 

  • Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something. 

reprieve

verb
  • To bring relief to someone. 

  • To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something). 

  • To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution. 

noun
  • A document authorizing such an action. 

  • Relief from pain etc., especially temporary. 

  • A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many. 

  • The cancellation or postponement of a punishment. 

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