espouse vs renege

espouse

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

  • To become/get married to. 

renege

verb
  • To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. 

  • In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable. 

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