positively vs sheerly

positively

adv
  • Absolutely; utterly. 

  • With certainty. 

  • In a positive manner. 

  • Very. 

sheerly

adv
  • Absolutely; purely; quite. 

  • At a very steep angle; precipitously. 

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