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   Awe , n. [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.]
   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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   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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   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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