antecede vs backdate

antecede

verb
  • To predate or antedate. 

  • To go before; to precede. 

backdate

verb
  • To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date. 

noun
  • An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date. 

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