relinquish vs secede

relinquish

verb
  • To accept to give up, withdraw etc. 

  • To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away. 

  • To let go (free, away), physically release. 

  • To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession. 

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 relinquish and secede occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )