All 8 Uses
allay
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An American Tragedy
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- And she liked to think that he was suffering from repressed desire for her all of the time that she tortured him, and that the power to allay his suffering lay wholly in her—a sadistic trait which had for its soil Clyde's own masochistic yearning for her.†
Chpt 1
- And since Dillard gave no evidence of deserting Zella, it followed, of course, that Clyde was to see her home, a pleasure that now had been allayed by a vague suggestion of disappointment or failure on the part of both.†
Chpt 2allayed = reduced the intensity of or calmed
- And for the moment her thoughts were allayed and modified by the beauty of his head and arms and the tousled hair that now fell over his eyes.†
Chpt 2 *
- That same evening, however, instead of lingering about the Peyton house or going to a moving picture theater, as he so often did now, or walking alone somewhere in order to allay his unrest and loneliness, he chose now instead to seek out the home of Roberta on Taylor Street.†
Chpt 2
- This last, more than anything else, served to allay Grace's notions in regard to Clyde and Roberta, for she was of that conventional turn of mind which would scarcely permit her to think of any one infringing upon a company rule.†
Chpt 2
- He would look around a little more at first in order to allay suspicion—ask about some socks.†
Chpt 2
- His uncertainty allayed, he now continued: "In the first place, the thing you want done is something my conscience would not permit me to advise.†
Chpt 2allayed = reduced the intensity of or calmed
- At the same time, something must be done at once, as he could see, in order to allay her apparently desperate mood.†
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(allay) reduce the intensity of; or calm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)