allay
verb (used with object)
to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
unallayed
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a word derived from
allay.
Example Sentences
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However this might be, we know that Abram did not find rest in this weary land, unallayed with sorrow.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
All through the winter, the perturbation of the little huckster’s mind remained unallayed; but there came a day in early spring which set his questionings at rest.
From The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn by J. W. Keyworth
Ten years afterwards, in writing to Björnson, the discomfort of that experience was still unallayed.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
The richest in this tender sunset beauty is the St Martin's Summer, where the late love is suddenly smitten with the discovery that its apparent warmth is a ghost of old passion buried but unallayed.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
The young man hastily allayed his appetite in a neighbouring restaurant, and returned with 142 the speed of unallayed curiosity to the house in the Rue Lepic.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
