sorrowful vs uplifting

sorrowful

adj
  • exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. 

  • Producing sorrow; causing grief. 

uplifting

noun
  • The act of something being lifted upward. 

adj
  • Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness. 

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