stuttering vs vacillant

stuttering

adj
  • That stutters. 

  • Hesitant. 

noun
  • An instance of stuttering. 

  • A speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds. 

vacillant

adj
  • Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute. 

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