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Definition of Awestricken
1. Adjective. Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread. "In grim despair and awestruck wonder"
Definition of Awestricken
1. a. Awe- struck.
Definition of Awestricken
1. Adjective. Filled with awe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Awestricken
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Awestricken
Literary usage of Awestricken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Marshall Everett (1904)
"TERRIBLE REALITY COMES TO awestricken CROWD. It was only fifteen minutes after
the first tongue of flame shot out from behind the scenes that a lull came in ..."
2. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"They were puzzled and awestricken by the Egyptian monuments, of which the forms,
as Plato says, not in a figure, but literally, were 10000 years old (" Laws ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"None of which things did any real honour to Hephaestion, but they served to
demonstrate to an awestricken world what a tremendous thing the sorrow of ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"He went away a little awestricken ; yet he was full of hope. And it was, I think,
the same day that Lucy also sought the stranger with her story. ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"I never go to either gallery but I am awestricken by the apparition of a shovel
hat and apron. Vagabond as I am, it makes me uncomfortable ; but 1 am ph ..."
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