egress vs exit

egress

verb
  • To exit or leave; to go or come out. 

noun
  • The process of exiting or leaving. 

  • The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one. 

  • An exit or way out. 

exit

verb
  • To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. 

  • To depart from life; to die. 

  • To depart from or leave (a place or situation). 

  • To leave a scene or depart from a stage. 

  • Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage. 

  • To give up the lead. 

  • To alight or disembark from a vehicle. 

  • To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) 

noun
  • A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway). 

  • An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. 

  • An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress. 

  • The act of departing from life; death. 

  • The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage. 

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