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Webster 1913 Edition

Awe

Awe

(a̤)
,
Noun.
[OE.
aȝe
,
aghe
, fr. Icel.
agi
; akin to AS.
ege
,
ōga
, Goth.
agis
, Dan.
ave
chastisement, fear, Gr.
ἄχοσ
pain, distress, from the same root as E.
ail
. √3. Cf.
Ugly
.]
1.
Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
[Obs. or Obsolescent]
His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of
awe
.
Cowper.
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.
There is an
awe
in mortals’ joy,
A deep mysterious fear.
Keble.
To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in
awe
.
Macaulay.
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.
To stand in awe of
,
to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.
Syn. – See
Reverence
.

Awe

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Awed
([GREEK]);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Awing
.]
To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
That same eye whose bend doth
awe
the world.
Shakespeare
His solemn and pathetic exhortation
awed
and melted the bystanders.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Awe

AWE

,
Noun.
aw.
[Gr. to be astonished.]
1.
Fear mingled with admiration or reverence; reverential fear.
Stand in awe and sin not. Ps. 4.
2.
Fear; dread inspired by something great, or terrific.

AWE

,
Verb.
T.
To strike with fear and reverence; to influence by fear, terror or respect; as, his majesty awed them into silence.

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