divulge vs refuse

divulge

verb
  • To indicate publicly; to proclaim. 

  • To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known. 

refuse

verb
  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

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