send off vs spurn

send off

verb
  • To show someone a red card, and dismiss them from the playing area. 

  • To provide a celebration for someone who is leaving; give a sendoff. 

  • To send; to dispatch. 

  • To emit; to emanate. 

noun
  • farewell party 

  • funeral or memorial service 

spurn

verb
  • To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. 

  • To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) 

  • To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. 

noun
  • An act of spurning; a scornful rejection. 

  • A kick; a blow with the foot. 

  • A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass. 

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