administer vs renounce

administer

verb
  • To give, as an oath. 

  • To apportion out, distribute. 

  • To minister (to). 

  • To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity. 

  • To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. 

  • (medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means. 

  • (medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit. 

renounce

verb
  • To surrender formally some right or trust. 

  • To cast off, repudiate. 

  • To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration. 

  • To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led. 

  • To make a renunciation of something. 

  • To give up, resign, surrender. 

  • To decline further association with someone or something, disown. 

noun
  • An act of renouncing. 

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