abut vs adjoin

abut

verb
  • To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. 

  • To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) 

  • To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. 

adjoin

verb
  • To be in contact or connection with. 

  • To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element). 

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