lying vs truth-telling

lying

noun
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground. 

  • An act of telling a lie or falsehood. 

adj
  • Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious 

truth-telling

noun
  • The act of telling the truth. 

adj
  • Telling the truth; honest, frank. 

How often have the words lying and truth-telling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )