true-to-life vs verbatim

true-to-life

verbatim

adj
  • Able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand. 

  • Corresponding with the original word for word. 

noun
  • A word-for-word report of a speech. 

adv
  • Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally. 

How often have the words true-to-life and verbatim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )