blame vs denounce

blame

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). 

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. 

denounce

verb
  • To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame. 

  • To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked. 

  • To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse. 

  • To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice. 

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