† inaweenawev.
/ɪˈnɔː//ɛˈnɔː/ Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To put in awe or fear; to awe, overawe.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > awe, reverential wonder > inspire with awe [verb (transitive)]
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being awesome > inspire with awe [verb (transitive)]
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1642 W. Brereton Let. to Cromwell in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) App. i. 45 It would seem they [the Commissioners of Array] intend to enawe or expel our best ministers.
1645 W. Brereton Let. to Lenthall in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) 317 Unless it be so that Sir Francis Gamull and Sir Richard Grosvenor..do enslave and inaw them hereunto.
1645–6 in 13th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1892) 336 Many of the citizens [of Chester] remain still so enthralled and enawed as that they dare not oppose nor resist.
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