awe

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: fearreverenceveneration

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  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”Synonyms: fearreverenceveneration

Verb (1)

  1. inspire awe in“The famous professor awed the undergraduates”
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Webster's Dictionary (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] [1913 Webster]

His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe.— Cowper.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear.— Keble.[1913 Webster]
To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]

To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly. [1913 Webster]

Syn: See Reverence. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Advanced WavEffect AWE

<multimedia, music, hardware> (AWE) The kind of synthesis used by the EMU 8000 music synthesizer integrated circuit found on the SB AWE32 card.

(1996-12-15)

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