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NOUN:
  1. A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might: We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach. The observers were in awe of the destructive power of the new weapon.
  2. Archaic
    1. The power to inspire dread.
    2. Dread.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
awed, aw·ing, awes
To inspire with awe.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old Norse agi


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