blame vs innocence

blame

noun
  • 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. 

  • Censure. 

  • 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). 

innocence

noun
  • Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc. 

  • Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage. 

  • Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime. 

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