acquittal vs censure

acquittal

noun
  • A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process. 

  • The act of releasing someone from debt or other obligation; acquittance. 

  • Avoidance of danger; deliverance. 

  • Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends. 

censure

noun
  • Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. 

  • An official reprimand. 

  • The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension. 

verb
  • To criticize harshly. 

  • To formally rebuke. 

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