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Propitiate vs Allay - What's the difference?

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Propitiate is a related term of allay.


As verbs the difference between propitiate and allay

is that propitiate is (dated) to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit while allay is to make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

As a noun allay is

alleviation; abatement; check.

propitiate

English

Verb

(propitiat)
  • (dated) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, / The god propitiate , and the pest assuage.

    Synonyms

    * appease

    Derived terms

    * propitiation

    allay

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
    • to allay popular excitement
    to allay the tumult of the passions
  • To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
    • to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity
  • (obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IV:
    • And the wynde alayed , and there folowed a greate calme: and he sayde unto them: why are ye fearfull?
  • * Shakespeare
    • When the rage allays .
  • (archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
    • (Fuller)

    Quotations

    He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet

    Synonyms

    * alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet

    Noun

  • alleviation; abatement; check

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