rescue vs saving

rescue

noun
  • An act or episode of rescuing, saving. 

  • A rescuee. 

  • A liberation, freeing. 

  • The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril 

  • A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded 

verb
  • To recover forcibly. 

  • To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. 

  • To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. 

  • To save from any violence, danger or evil. 

  • To deliver by arms, notably from a siege. 

  • To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. 

saving

noun
  • The action of the verb to save. 

  • A reduction in cost or expenditure. 

  • Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future. 

adj
  • Preserving; rescuing. 

  • Thrifty; frugal. 

  • That saves someone from damnation; redemptive. 

  • Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful. 

  • Relating to making a saving. 

  • Making reservation or exception. 

prep
  • Without disrespect to. 

  • With the exception of; except; save. 

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