Definition of awe

"awe" in the noun sense

1. awe

an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration

"he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe"

2. fear, reverence, awe, veneration

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"

"awe" in the verb sense

1. awe

inspire awe in

"The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

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Quotations for awe

Life hath more awe than death. [ Bailey ]

The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]

I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nobody can stand in awe of himself too much. [ Proverb ]

One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]

The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe. [ Ben Jonson ]

Oaths were not purposed more than law to keep the good and just in awe. [ Samuel Butler ]

Character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. [ Tillotson ]

Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than of thine own conscience. [ Thomas Fuller ]

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. [ Helvetius ]

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. [ Shenstone ]

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever. [ Carlyle ]

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. [ Sheridan ]

O form! how oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]

O place! O form, how often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]

Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers; they arouse and animate our own people. [ Henry Clay ]

The deep mellow voice of the waves of the mighty deep is full of mystery and awe; and the ocean moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, lulls them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its unfathomable depths. [ Haliburton ]

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow. [ Anthony Trollope ]

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. [ Goldsmith ]

awe in Scrabble®

The word awe is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters awe:

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awe in Words With Friends™

The word awe is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters awe:

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Word Growth involving awe

Shorter words in awe

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Longer words containing awe

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awed clawed declawed

awed clawed sharpclawed

awed flawed unflawed

awed gnawed begnawed

awed gnawed outgnawed

awed guffawed

awed hawed heehawed

awed hawed thawed rethawed

awed hawed thawed unthawed

awed hawed whillywhawed

awed jawed squarejawed

awed jawed wapperjawed

awed outlawed

awed overawed

awed pawed

awed sawed chainsawed

awed sawed hacksawed

awed sawed jigsawed

awed sawed quartersawed

awed sawed resawed

awed sawed seesawed

awed sawed whipsawed

awed strawed

awed unawed

awed yawed

aweigh

aweing

aweless

awes awesome awesomely

awes awesome awesomeness

awes awestruck

awes overawes

awes rawest

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