butchery vs witch-hunt

butchery

noun
  • The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse. 

  • A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. 

  • A meat market 

  • An abattoir, a slaughterhouse. 

  • The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian. 

  • The butchering of meat. 

witch-hunt

noun
  • A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them. 

  • A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group. 

  • An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds. 

verb
  • To perform a witch-hunt. 

How often have the words butchery and witch-hunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )