ill-use vs tormenting

ill-use

noun
  • Bad, cruel or unkind treatment. 

verb
  • To treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly. 

tormenting

noun
  • The act by which somebody is tormented. 

adj
  • Involving or causing torment. 

How often have the words ill-use and tormenting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )