call off vs recant

call off

verb
  • To recall; to cancel or call a halt to. 

  • To telephone in one's notice of a day's absence from work. 

recant

verb
  • To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly. 

  • To give a new cant (slant, angle) to something, in particular railway track on a curve. 

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