abend vs desistance

abend

noun

  • The abnormal termination of a program. 

  • Termination of a process prior to completion. 

verb

  • To terminate abnormally. 

desistance

noun

  • The act or state of desisting; cessation. 

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