steadfastness vs transience

steadfastness

noun
  • Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty. 

  • Steadfast resolution. 

transience

noun
  • The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting. 

  • An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying. 

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