accede vs consensus

accede

verb
  • To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. 

  • To become a party to an agreement or a treaty. 

  • To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). 

consensus

verb
  • To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement. 

noun
  • A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. 

  • Average projected value. 

  • General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. 

  • An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation. 

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