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Awe \Awe\ ([add]), n. [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin
to AS. ege, [=o]ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear,
Gr. 'a`chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail.
[root]3. Cf. {Ugly}.]
1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or
Obsolescent]
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His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe.
--Cowper.
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2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an
undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime;
reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
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There is an awe in mortals' joy,
A deep mysterious fear. --Keble.
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To tame the pride of that power which held the
Continent in awe. --Macaulay.
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The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the
mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of
our own littleness in some greater presence or
power. --C. J. Smith.
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{To stand in awe of}, to fear greatly; to reverence
profoundly.
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Syn: See {Reverence}.
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Awe \Awe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Awed} (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Awing}.]
To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to
control by inspiring dread.
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That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. --Shak.
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His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the
bystanders. --Macaulay.
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