choice vs tempered

choice

adj
  • Especially good or preferred. 

intj
  • Cool; excellent. 

noun
  • One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. 

  • Anything that can be chosen. 

  • The power to choose. 

  • Do I have a choice of what color to paint it? 

  • An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. 

  • The best or most preferable part. 

tempered

adj
  • Having a specified disposition or temper. 

  • Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals. 

  • Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune. 

  • Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass. 

  • Moderated or balanced by other considerations. 

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