pressing vs vital

pressing

adj
  • Needing urgent attention. 

  • Insistent, earnest, or persistent. 

noun
  • The extraction of juice from fruit using a press. 

  • A metal or plastic part made with a press. 

  • The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron. 

  • A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time. 

  • The application of pressure by a press or other means. 

  • Urgent insistence. 

  • A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake. 

vital

adj
  • Very important. 

  • Invigorating or life-giving. 

  • Containing life; living. 

  • Necessary to continued existence. 

  • Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends. 

  • Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. 

  • Relating to the recording of life events. 

  • Relating to, or characteristic of life. 

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