litigate vs resign

litigate

verb
  • To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit. 

  • To dispute; to fight over. 

  • To contest in law. 

resign

verb
  • To quit (a job or position). 

  • To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. 

  • To give up; to relinquish ownership of. 

  • To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another. 

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