mean to say vs would

mean to say

verb
  • To imply or intend to convey with one's words; used to correct or clarify one's previous utterance, or to seek such clarification. 

would

verb
  • Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation. 

  • Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another. 

  • Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something. 

  • Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. 

  • Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). 

  • Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action. 

  • Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption. 

  • Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? 

  • Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. 

  • Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc. 

noun
  • Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality. 

How often have the words mean to say and would occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )