rebuff vs submission

rebuff

noun
  • A sudden resistance or refusal. 

  • Repercussion, or beating back. 

  • He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal. 

verb
  • To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out. 

  • To buff again. 

submission

noun
  • The act of submitting or yielding; surrender. 

  • The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work. 

  • A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports. 

  • The thing which has been submitted. 

  • A subset or component of a mission. 

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