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Awing

adjective

Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder. Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful. "The Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" , "The awesome complexity of the universe" , "This sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath" , "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"

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"Awing" Quotes from Famous Books

... I have frequently heard him assert, that a single legion and a few auxiliaries would be sufficient entirely to conquer Ireland and keep it in subjection; and that such an event would also have contributed to restrain the Britons, by awing them with the prospect of the Roman arms all around them, and, as it were, banishing liberty ...

— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus

... facts and explanations—should come first, appealing to the intellect; then should follow the illustrative and pathetic elements, which touch the feelings; and then, at the close, should come those moving and over-awing considerations which stir the conscience and determine the will. Thus the impression would grow from ...

— The Preacher and His Models - The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 • James Stalker

Words linked to "Awing" : awful, awesome, amazing, awe-inspiring, impressive