semicolon vs surcease

semicolon

noun

  • The punctuation mark ;. 

surcease

noun

  • Cessation; stop, stopping; end. Respite, intermission. 

verb

  • To come to an end; to desist. 

  • To bring to an end. 

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