revoke vs rule out

revoke

verb
  • To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. 

noun
  • The act of revoking in a game of cards. 

  • A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental. 

  • A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid. 

rule out

verb
  • To disallow. 

  • To reject an option from a list of possibilities. 

  • To make something impossible. 

  • To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler. 

  • To make unavailable. 

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