affirmation vs retraction

affirmation

noun
  • A form of self-forced meditation or repetition; autosuggestion. 

  • That which is affirmed; a declaration that something is true. 

  • The solemn declaration made by Quakers and others incapable of taking an oath. 

retraction

noun
  • A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace. 

  • An act or instance of retracting. 

  • A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error. 

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