conscience vs regret

conscience

noun
  • The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions. 

  • A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices. 

regret

noun
  • The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action. 

  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. 

verb
  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. 

  • To feel sorry about (any thing). 

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