confront vs regard

confront

verb
  • To come up against; to encounter. 

  • To set a thing side by side with; to compare. 

  • To deal with. 

  • To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to. 

  • To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with 

  • To engage in confrontation. 

  • To bring someone face to face with something. 

regard

verb
  • To face toward. 

  • To look at; to observe. 

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

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

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 confront and regard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )