ostracize vs spurn

ostracize

verb
  • To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. 

  • To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism. 

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 ostracize and spurn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )