awe-stricken

awe-stricken (comparative more awe-stricken, superlative most awe-stricken)

1. Alternative form of awestricken (“awestruck”).
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the second (Maiden No More), page 184:

     While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed— […]

• “awe-stricken”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.