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have been allaying
  • present perfect progressive of allay.

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For fifty years we have been allaying fears, meeting objections, arguing, educating, until today there remain no fears, no objections in connection with the question of woman suffrage that have not been met and answered.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted