defiance vs regard

defiance

noun
  • A challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge. 

  • The feeling, or spirit of being defiant. 

  • Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power. 

regard

noun
  • One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To look at; to observe. 

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

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To face toward. 

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