admire vs regard

admire

verb
  • To regard with wonder and delight. 

  • To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. 

  • To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.) 

  • To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem. 

regard

verb
  • To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. 

  • To look at; to observe. 

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To face toward. 

noun
  • A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. 

  • The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. 

  • A steady look, a gaze. 

  • Slang for retard, a very bad stock trader. 

  • One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. 

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