regard vs sympathy

regard

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. 

verb
  • To look at; to observe. 

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

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To face toward. 

sympathy

noun
  • Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude. 

  • Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. 

  • Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting. 

  • The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune. 

  • The ability to share the feelings of another. 

  • A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. 

  • Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it. 

  • An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. 

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