Both Uses
allay
in
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
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- But any doubt that the Briarcrest Christian School served up the sort of education Betty Boo had in mind was allayed by the sight of the passage from the Book of Matthew inscribed on the outside of the main building: With men this is impossible; with God all things are possible.†
p. 48.8allayed = reduced the intensity of or calmed
- To allay her concerns that she knew absolutely no one in Knoxville, Tennessee, he offered the Fulmer guesthouse as a home away from home.†
p. 187.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(allay) reduce the intensity of; or calm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)