categorically vs sheerly

categorically

adv
  • Absolutely, by all means; truly. 

  • By the use of categories. 

  • In a categorical manner. 

sheerly

adv
  • Absolutely; purely; quite. 

  • At a very steep angle; precipitously. 

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