Jakob Bohme

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

German Theologian

Henry Louis Gates

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

American Critic

Zachary Taylor

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.

American President

Mel Gibson

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

Actor

Simone de Beauvoir

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

French Writer

Miguel de Cervantes

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Spanish Novelist

Lauren Weisberger

There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.

American Novelist

Used when someone or something reduces intense feelings, not just general discomfort.

Emotional Relief

The relief provided by 'allaying' is usually short-term, until the situation is resolved.

Often Temporary

Allay is about easing non-physical issues, like worries or doubts, not physical pain.

Not Physical

Allay is often used to describe actions that soothe people, not inanimate objects or situations.

Soothe People

It involves providing psychological comfort or reassurance to someone stressed or anxious.

Psychological Comfort

Used in contexts like calming disputes, arguments, or easing diplomatic tensions.

Easing Tension

 such that this international currency is never more than five percent of global foreign exchange reserves. That's important because it would allay well, let's say, the ridiculous concerns that the US might have