Awe

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  awe
       n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared
            over the edge with a feeling of awe"
       2: a profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God"
          [syn: {fear}, {reverence}, {veneration}]
       v : inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the
           undergraduates"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  AWE
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From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  AWE
       Autocad Windows Extension (AutoCAD)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  AWE
       
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