awe
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
awe
n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared
over the edge with a feeling of awe"
2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the
fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the
French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for
the law bordered on veneration" [syn: {fear}, {reverence},
{awe}, {veneration}]
v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the
undergraduates"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "awe":
abject fear, admiration, adoration, affright, alarm, amaze,
amazement, apotheosis, appall, appreciation, approbation, approval,
astonish, astonishment, astound, astoundment, awestrike,
be widely reputed, bedaze, bedazzle, beguilement, bewilder,
bewilderment, blue funk, boggle, bowl down, bowl over,
breathless adoration, breathless wonder, command respect, confound,
consideration, consternation, courtesy, cowardice, daunt, daze,
dazzle, deference, deification, deter, discourage, dishearten,
dismay, dread, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumbfoundment, duty, esteem,
estimation, exaggerated respect, fascination, favor, faze, fear,
flabbergast, freeze, fright, funk, great respect, have prestige,
hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, horrification, horrify,
horror, idolatry, idolization, inspire respect, marvel, marveling,
overawe, overwhelm, panic, panic fear, paralyze, perplex, petrify,
phobia, prestige, puzzlement, rank high, regard, respect,
reverence, reverential regard, scare, scare stiff, scare to death,
sense of mystery, sense of wonder, shake, shock, spook, stagger,
stampede, stand high, startle, stop, strike dead, strike dumb,
strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, stupefaction,
stupefy, surprise, terrify, terror, terrorize, unholy dread,
veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship
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