endow vs refuse

endow

verb
  • To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. 

  • Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. 

  • Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something). 

  • To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”). 

refuse

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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

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

  • To melt again. 

  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • 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. 

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