allay vs elicit

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. 

elicit

verb
  • To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something. 

  • To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason 

  • To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer. 

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