accede vs secede

accede

verb
  • To become a party to an agreement or a treaty. 

  • To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. 

  • To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). 

secede

verb
  • To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. 

  • To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. 

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