sweeping vs thorough

sweeping

adj
  • Completely overwhelming. 

  • Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things. 

noun
  • The activity of sweeping. 

  • An instance of sweeping. 

thorough

adj
  • Utter; complete; absolute. 

  • Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail. 

noun
  • A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. 

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