spurn vs swear off

spurn

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

  • To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. 

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

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. 

swear off

verb
  • To quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit. 

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