blame vs reprieve

blame

noun
  • Censure. 

  • 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. 

  • 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). 

reprieve

noun
  • The cancellation or postponement of a punishment. 

  • A document authorizing such an action. 

  • Relief from pain etc., especially temporary. 

  • A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many. 

verb
  • To abandon or postpone plans to close, withdraw or abolish (something). 

  • To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution. 

  • To bring relief to someone. 

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