awe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: awe	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for awe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
awe n an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" Synonym(s): fear, reverence, awe, veneration v inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awe \Awe\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awe \Awe\ ([add]), n. [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin to AS. ege, [omac]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 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
AWE {Advanced WavEffect}