impose vs refuse

impose

verb
  • to be an inconvenience (on or upon) 

  • To practice a trick or deception (on or upon). 

  • To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc. 

  • To establish or apply by authority. 

  • to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way 

  • To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. 

refuse

verb
  • To decline (a request or demand). 

  • To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. 

  • To melt again. 

  • To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. 

noun
  • Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage. 

adj
  • Discarded, rejected. 

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