resign vs secede

resign

verb
  • To quit (a job or position). 

  • To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. 

  • To give up; to relinquish ownership of. 

  • To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another. 

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