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Awestricken

adjective
1.
Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread.  Synonyms: awed, awestruck.  "In grim despair and awestruck wonder"






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"Awestricken" Quotes from Famous Books



... butterfly waved its wings anew, with a motion so absolutely lifelike that Annie was startled, and even awestricken; for, in spite of her husband's opinion, she could not satisfy herself whether it was indeed a living creature or a piece of ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... on the Sculptor Girl's doorplate. It took me a full minute to get the courage to tap her gargoyle knocker because I was so awestricken at remembering that she was the girl who won the Ambrose Medal and the Pendleton Prize and goodness only knows how ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke

... themselves unseen. Pools covered with Victoria regia; masses of red and yellow flowers upon the trees, the trees themselves gigantic, and the moss which floated from their branches long as a spear; the voyage in canoes, whirled like a cork upon the rapids; lastly the falls themselves, and how they, awestricken at the sight, fell prostrate and promised many candles to the Virgin and the saints on their return, they talked of into ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham



Words linked to "Awestricken" :   overawed, unawed, awestruck, awed



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