pay attention vs scorn

pay attention

verb
  • To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention. 

scorn

verb
  • To scoff, to express contempt. 

  • To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. 

  • To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. 

  • To reject, turn down. 

noun
  • A display of disdain; a slight. 

  • Contempt or disdain. 

  • An object of disdain, contempt, or derision. 

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