evil vs value

evil

noun
  • Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. 

  • Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. 

adj
  • Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.). 

  • Undesirable; harmful; bad practice. 

  • Intending to harm; malevolent. 

  • Morally corrupt. 

  • Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. 

value

noun
  • That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. 

  • The degree of importance given to something. 

  • The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc. 

  • The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc. 

  • The relative duration of a musical note. 

  • The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else. 

  • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. 

  • Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined. 

  • Precise meaning; import. 

verb
  • To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. 

  • To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. 

  • To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. 

  • To hold dear. 

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