renounce vs surrender

renounce

verb
  • To give up, resign, surrender. 

  • To cast off, repudiate. 

  • To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration. 

  • To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card of the suit led. 

  • To make a renunciation of something. 

  • To surrender formally some right or trust. 

  • To decline further association with someone or something, disown. 

noun
  • An act of renouncing. 

surrender

verb
  • To give up possession of; to yield; to resign. 

  • To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. 

  • To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. 

  • To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc. 

  • For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value. 

  • To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet. 

  • To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in. 

noun
  • An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. 

  • The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. 

  • The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists. 

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