blame vs regard

blame

verb
  • To assert the cause of some bad event. 

  • To censure (someone or something); to criticize. 

  • 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). 

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. 

regard

verb
  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To look at; to observe. 

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

  • To face toward. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

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