weeper vs whimper

weeper

noun
  • A pleurant. 

  • A weeping tree. 

  • A white border round the sleeve of a mourning dress. 

  • A widow's crape veil. 

  • A hired mourner. 

  • A thing that slowly leaks liquid. 

  • A person who weeps. 

  • A crape hatband. 

whimper

noun
  • A low intermittent sob. 

verb
  • To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain. 

  • To say something in a whimpering manner. 

  • To cry or sob softly and intermittently. 

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