AWE
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Awe (&asuml_;), n. [OE. a&yogh_;e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin to AS. ege, &ō;ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear, Gr. 'a`chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail. √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 (&unr_;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Awed (&unr_;); 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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