cordial vs saccharine

cordial

adj
  • Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. 

  • Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits. 

  • Radiating warmth and friendliness; genial. 

noun
  • A liqueur prepared using the infusion process. 

  • A pleasant-tasting medicine. 

  • A candy (or bonbon) usually made of milk chocolate, filled with small fruits (often maraschino cherries) and syrup or fondant. 

  • Anything that revives or comforts, a stimulant. 

  • A concentrated non-carbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking. 

  • An individual serving of such a diluted drink. 

saccharine

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

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