dread vs trembler

dread

noun
  • Somebody or something dreaded. 

  • A Rastafarian. 

  • Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. 

  • Reverential or respectful fear; awe. 

verb
  • To be in dread, or great fear. 

  • To style (the hair) into dreadlocks. 

  • To fear greatly. 

  • To anticipate with fear. 

adj
  • Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. 

trembler

noun
  • One who, or that which, trembles. 

  • The vibrating hammer, or spring contact piece of a hammer break, as of the electric ignition apparatus for an internal combustion engine. 

  • Any of various New World passerine birds of the family Mimidae. 

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