forswear vs recant

forswear

verb
  • To renounce or deny something, especially under oath. 

  • To commit perjury; to break an oath. 

recant

verb
  • To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly. 

  • To give a new cant (slant, angle) to something, in particular railway track on a curve. 

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