paragraph vs pilcrow

paragraph

noun
  • A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject. 

  • A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper. 

  • An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures. 

  • A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic. 

verb
  • To sort text into paragraphs. 

  • To publish a brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper. 

pilcrow

noun
  • Synonym of paragraph mark: ¶. 

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