renounce vs safeguard

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. 

safeguard

verb
  • To protect, to keep safe. 

  • To escort safely. 

  • To implement safeguarding. 

noun
  • A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war. 

  • Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense. 

  • One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection. 

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