debar vs persist

debar

verb
  • To hinder or prevent. 

  • To exclude or shut out; to bar. 

  • To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program. 

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 debar and persist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )