ignore vs spurn

ignore

verb
  • To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. 

  • To pretend to not notice someone or something. 

spurn

verb
  • To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. 

  • To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) 

  • To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. 

noun
  • An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. 

  • A kick; a blow with the foot. 

  • A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass. 

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