gainsaying vs rebelling

gainsaying

noun
  • Rebellious opposition; rebellion. 

  • Denial; denying. 

  • Refusal to accept or believe something. 

  • Contradiction. 

  • Opposition, especially in speech. 

rebelling

noun
  • An act or feeling of rebellion. 

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