exclude vs rule out

exclude

verb
  • To expel; to put out. 

  • To omit from consideration. 

  • To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out. 

  • To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid. 

  • To eliminate from diagnostic consideration. 

rule out

verb
  • To disallow. 

  • To reject an option from a list of possibilities. 

  • To make something impossible. 

  • To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler. 

  • To make unavailable. 

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