desist vs forgo

desist

verb
  • To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from). 

forgo

verb
  • To do without, to abandon, to renounce. 

  • To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. 

  • To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. 

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