ending vs vanguard

ending

noun
  • A termination or conclusion. 

  • The last part of something. 

  • The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). 

vanguard

noun
  • The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement. 

  • The leading units at the front of an army or fleet. 

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