continuation vs resignation

continuation

noun
  • The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession 

  • That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on. 

  • A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point. 

  • A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball. 

resignation

noun
  • The act of resigning. 

  • A written or oral declaration that one resigns. 

  • The form by which a vassal returns the feu into the hands of a superior. 

  • An uncomplaining acceptance of something undesirable but unavoidable. 

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