allay vs continuant

allay

noun
  • Alleviation; abatement; check. 

verb
  • To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. 

  • To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. 

continuant

noun
  • A linguistic sound other than a stop. 

  • An endurant. 

  • A determinant formed from a tridiagonal matrix. 

adj
  • Continuing; prolonged; sustained. 

How often have the words allay and continuant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )