| n. | 1. | Dread; great fear mingled with respect. | |||
| 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. 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.
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| v. t. | 1. | To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. | |||
| 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" | |
| Verb | 1. | awe - inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates" |
| AWE - Advanced WavEffect |
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