hope vs surrender

hope

verb
  • To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. 

  • To wish. 

  • To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. 

  • To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. 

noun
  • A sloping plain between mountain ridges. 

  • A small bay; an inlet; a haven. 

  • A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe. 

  • The virtuous desire for future good. 

  • The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. 

  • The actual thing wished for. 

  • A person or thing that is a source of hope. 

surrender

verb
  • To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc. 

  • To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. 

  • To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. 

  • To give up possession of; to yield; to resign. 

  • For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value. 

  • To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet. 

  • To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in. 

noun
  • An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. 

  • The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. 

  • The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists. 

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