awe-full
See also: awefull
English
Adjective
awe-full (comparative more awe-full, superlative most awe-full)
- Alternative form of awful (“full of awe; awe-inspiring”) used to distinguish from other senses..
- Alternative form: awe-ful
- 1916, A[ugustus] H[enry] Cullen, “How Plans Change Themselves”, in Blazing the Trail: Some L.M.S. Pioneers of 1816, London: London Missionary Society […], →OCLC, page 93:
- For some moments they stand simply dumb, every one of them, with sheer wonder and amazement. It is probably the weirdest, the most actually awe-full place on earth.
- 1963, Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, “‘O Moon of My Delight!’”, in The Airs of Earth, London: New English Library, published August 1972, →ISBN, page 90:
- There is terror here on Tandy’s equator, terror and sublimity. The most awe-full place in the universe. Where vacuum and atmosphere kiss: and the kiss is a kiss of death!
- 1981 May, Roger Finch, “At Haein Temple (Historical Site and Scenic Place No. 5)”, in Stations of the Sun, Boston, Mass.: Somerset Hall Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 52:
- We did find a matching dim, voices-held-below-a-whisper awe-full hush in its natural silence: birds held their song in the birdfooted branches; acorns refused to drop through the squirrelless shadows.
- 1989, George Stormont, “Sanctification: Unbroken Communion With God”, in Smith Wigglesworth: A Man Who Walked With God (A Living Classic Book), Tulsa, Okla.: Harrison House, →ISBN, page 59:
- 2011 [c. 1591–1593], Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, [et al.], edited by John Jowett, Sir Thomas More (The Arden Shakespeare; 3rd series), London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, published 2017, →ISBN, page 215, lines 167–172:
- O God, that mercy, whose majestic brow / Should be unwrinkled, and that awe-full justice, / Which looketh through a veil of sufferance / Upon the frailty of the multitude, / Should with the clamours of outrageous wrongs / Be stirred and wakened thus to punishment!