espouse vs forsake

espouse

verb
  • To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). 

  • To become/get married to. 

forsake

verb
  • To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something). 

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