renounce vs require

renounce

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

  • To cast off, repudiate. 

  • 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 surrender formally some right or trust. 

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

noun
  • An act of renouncing. 

require

verb
  • To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. 

  • To demand of (someone) to do something. 

  • Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. 

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