recant vs unsay

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. 

unsay

verb
  • To withdraw, retract (something said). 

  • To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). 

  • I wish I could unsay that. 

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