Awe

n.	1.	Dread; great fear mingled with respect. 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.
v. t.	1.	To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. [imp. & p. p. Awed ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Awing.] That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. - Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. - Macaulay.

Noun	1.	awe - an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe"
	2.	awe - a profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God" Synonyms: reverence, veneration, fear
Verb	1.	awe - inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

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