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awe-struck, ppl. a.|ˈɔːˌstrʌk| [f. awe n. + struck, pa. pple. of strike v.] Struck with, or overwhelmed by, awe, terror, reverential fear, or profound admiration tinged with latent fear.
1634Milton Comus 301, I was awe-struck, And as I past, I worshipped. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 417 In presence of the royal Chief awe-struck. 1846Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. ii. iii. 180 That exclamation of the awe-struck heathen centurion. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. ii. 28 Its majesty increasing as I gazed, until at last it..completely absorbed each awestruck sense. |