disown vs repudiate

disown

verb
  • To repudiate any connection to; to renounce. 

  • To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session. 

  • To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own. 

repudiate

verb
  • To be repudiated. 

  • To reject the truth or validity of; to deny. 

  • To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown. 

  • To refuse to pay or honor (a debt). 

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