lamentation vs regret

lamentation

noun
  • A sorrowful cry; a lament. 

  • Specifically, mourning. 

  • The act of lamenting. 

  • A group of swans. 

  • lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge 

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 lamentation and regret occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )