pardon vs pardon me

pardon

verb
  • To forgive (a person). 

  • To refrain from exacting as a penalty. 

  • To grant an official pardon for a crime. 

noun
  • An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed. 

  • Forgiveness for an offence. 

intj
  • Often used when someone does not understand what another person says. 

pardon me

phrase
  • Polite expression used to soften a contradiction. 

  • Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance. 

  • Sorry; said as an apology. 

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