courageous vs sporting

courageous

adj
  • Of a person, displaying or possessing courage. 

  • Of an action, that requires courage. 

sporting

adj
  • Exhibiting sportsmanship. 

  • Fair, generous; ‘game’. 

  • Pertaining to sports 

noun
  • The act of taking part in a sport. 

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