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Awed   /ɔd/   Listen
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Awe  v. t.  (past & past part. awed; pres. part. awing)  To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. "That same eye whose bend doth awe the world." "His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders."






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"Awed" Quotes from Famous Books



... imperious King, Wroth, were his realm not duly awed; A God for ever hearkening Unto his self-commanded laud; A God for ever jealous grown Of carven wood ...
— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

... awed than curious as the tale went on; it even seemed to her she was listening to a theme beyond her sphere, like some shameless eavesdropper at the curtains of a secret ceremonial. Once or twice she looked at her mother and at the Young Doctor, as though to reassure herself ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... his pride, a secret shame Invades his heart at Shakspeare's sacred name; Awed when he hears his godlike Romans rage, He, in a just despair, would quit the stage, And to an age less polish'd, more unskill'd, Does, with disdain, the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various

... grave where it had been laid and its bearer began his long winter journey to Quebec. The sleigh with its sad burden, a moving dark speck on a white background, made its slow way along the wintry roads and by the shores of the ice bound St. Lawrence. We can picture the awed solemnity with which the French Canadian peasants heard the story of Nairne's fall as his body rested for the night in inn or farm yard. On January 20th, 1814, Bowen wrote to Mr. Le Courtois that the body would arrive by Saturday as it ...
— A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs - The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 • George M. Wrong

... matter, coming from no one knows where, meaning one hardly knows what; but already a magic, an incantation. "Lewti" is a sort of preliminary study for "Kubla Khan"; it, too, has all the imagery of a dream, with a breathlessness and awed hush, as of one not yet accustomed to ...
— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons


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