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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Awe \Awe\ ([add]), noun [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin to AS. ege, [=o]ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear, Gr. 'a'chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail. [root]3. Cf. {Ugly}.]
1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent]
His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. --Cowper.
2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. --Keble.
To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. --Macaulay.
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.
{To stand in awe of}, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.
Syn: See {Reverence}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Awe \Awe\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Awed} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --Shak.
His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
awe
noun
1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe"
2: a profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God" [syn: {fear}, {reverence}, {veneration}]
verb: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "awe": abject fear, admiration, adoration, affright, alarm, amaze, amazement, apotheosis, appall, appreciation, approbation, approval, astonish, astonishment, astound, astoundment, awestrike, be widely reputed, bedaze, bedazzle, beguilement, bewilder, bewilderment, blue funk, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, breathless adoration, breathless wonder, command respect, confound, consideration, consternation, courtesy, cowardice, daunt, daze, dazzle, deference, deification, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dread, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumbfoundment, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, fascination, favor, faze, fear, flabbergast, freeze, fright, funk, great respect, have prestige, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, horrification, horrify, horror, idolatry, idolization, inspire respect, marvel, marveling, overawe, overwhelm, panic, panic fear, paralyze, perplex, petrify, phobia, prestige, puzzlement, rank high, regard, respect, reverence, reverential regard, scare, scare stiff, scare to death, sense of mystery, sense of wonder, shake, shock, spook, stagger, stampede, stand high, startle, stop, strike dead, strike dumb, strike terror into, strike with wonder, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, surprise, terrify, terror, terrorize, unholy dread, veneration, wonder, wonderment, worship
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
AWE {Advanced WavEffect}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
AWE Address Windowing Extensions (API, PAE)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
AWE Autocad Windows Extension (AutoCAD)
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