count out vs persist

count out

verb
  • To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. 

  • To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. 

  • To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated. 

  • To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes. 

  • To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. 

persist

verb
  • To go on stubbornly or resolutely. 

  • To repeat an utterance. 

  • To cause to persist; make permanent. 

  • To continue to exist. 

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