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Hi Folks Being an Englishman I thought I might amuse you all with the Oxfrod English Dictionary’s definition of Awe:-
I. As a subjective emotion.
1. Immediate and active fear; terror, dread. Obs.
2. From its use in reference to the Divine Being this passes gradually into: Dread mingled with veneration, reverential or respectful fear; the attitude of a mind subdued to profound reverence in the presence of supreme authority, moral greatness or sublimity, or mysterious sacredness.
3. The feeling of solemn and reverential wonder, tinged with latent fear, inspired by what is terribly sublime and majestic in nature, e.g. thunder, a storm at sea.
4. To stand in awe of: to be greatly afraid of, to dread; later, to entertain a profound reverence for.
5. Power to inspire fear or reverence; overawing influence. arch.
(Arising from the originally objective genitive, ‘his awe’ (= awe of him), taken as possessive.)6. Behaviour that inspires fear; anger, fierceness, rage. Obs.
7. Something which inspires fear; a cause of dread; a restraint. Obs. [ON. agi has also sense of ‘constraint.’]
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