acclaim vs blame

acclaim

noun
  • An acclamation; a shout of applause. 

verb
  • To express great approval (for). 

  • To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation. 

  • To declare by acclamations. 

  • To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically. 

blame

noun
  • Culpability for something negative or undesirable. 

  • A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code. 

  • Censure. 

  • Responsibility for something meriting censure. 

verb
  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize. 

  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

  • To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame, to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative). 

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