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Definition of Awhape
1. v. t. To confound; to terrify; to amaze.
Definition of Awhape
1. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To confound; to terrify; to amaze. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Awhape
1. to confound [v AWHAPED, AWHAPING, AWHAPES] - See also: confound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Awhape
Literary usage of Awhape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... answered then the ape, Deeply do your lad words my wits awhape. The word is
used by Chaucer. AWORK. On work ; into work. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"awhape, ». To confound ; to render stupid by fear. ... And eke in stature higher
by a span, All over-grown with huir that could awhape An hardy heart. ..."
3. The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur by Cyril Tourneur, John Churton Collins (1878)
"I And Spenser : To awhape is to terrify or '' Deeply do your sad words my wits
awhape," | quoted by Nares. Eeth. For eald—young age, so youth ; though the ..."
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