acclaim vs vilify

acclaim

noun
  • An acclamation; a shout of applause. 

verb
  • To express great approval (for). 

  • To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation. 

  • To declare by acclamations. 

  • To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically. 

vilify

verb
  • To belittle through speech; to put down. 

  • To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of. 

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