Definition of awes Awes

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Noun Plural: awes
awe - an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe"
		wonderment, admiration, wonder a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works"
awe - 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"
		fear, reverence, veneration
		emotion any strong feeling
Verb awes, awing, awed
awe - inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
		affright, fright, frighten, scare cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
		cow, overawe subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

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awe (n.)
Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
awe (n.)
The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
awe (v. t.)
To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.

awe
aw, n. reverential fear, or wonder: dread: (arch.) power to inspire awe.—v.t. to strike with or influence by fear.—adj. Awe′less, without fear.—n. Awe′lessness.—adjs. Awe′some, Aw′some (Scot.), full of awe: inspiring awe: weird, dreadful.—v.t. Awe′-strike, to strike with awe.—adjs. Awe′-struck, struck or affected with awe; Aw′ful, full of awe: dreadful: inspiring respect: expressive of awe: (slang) ugly: and as a mere intensive of anything.—adv. Aw′fully (also in slang merely = very).—n. Aw′fulness. [Ice. agi, A.S. ege, fear; cog. with Gael. eaghal; Gr. achos, anguish.]