praise vs stroking

praise

verb
  • To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. 

noun
  • Commendation; favourable representation in words. 

  • Worship. 

stroking

noun
  • The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order. 

  • The act of making strokes. 

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