dejection vs regret

dejection

noun
  • A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues. 

  • The act of humbling or abasing oneself. 

  • A low condition; weakness; inability. 

regret

noun
  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. 

  • The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action. 

verb
  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. 

  • To feel sorry about (any thing). 

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