nullify vs recant

nullify

verb
  • To make legally invalid. 

  • To prevent from happening. 

  • To make of no use or value; to cancel out. 

recant

verb
  • To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly. 

  • To give a new cant (slant, angle) to something, in particular railway track on a curve. 

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