ambitious vs spiritous

ambitious

adj
  • Very desirous 

  • Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition 

  • Hard to achieve. 

  • Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction. 

spiritous

adj
  • pure; ardent 

  • spirituous 

  • high-spirited 

  • of the nature of spirit 

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