hurt vs stead

hurt

noun
  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • A husk. 

  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

verb
  • To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. 

  • To be painful. 

  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

stead

noun
  • An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). 

  • The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor. 

  • One's partner in a romantic relationship. 

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