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Definition of Awing
1. Adjective. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder. "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
Definition of Awing
1. adv. On the wing; flying; fluttering.
Definition of Awing
1. Adverb. On the wing; flying; fluttering. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of awe) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Awing
1. awe [v] - See also: awe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Awing
Literary usage of Awing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishments by Charles Phillips (1857)
"penalty, awing as it were, whole multitudes at once by the terror of the example.
They knew not human nature who thus argued. Exhibitions such as these will ..."
2. The Windsor Magazine (1905)
"She hud a awing uf arm thut hurled tin- portable property in the cabin with я
fierce precision. ... awing ..."
3. The Inquisition Unmasked: Being an Historical and Philosophical Account of by Antonio Puigblanch (1816)
"Besides being ridiculous, it is 'also fruitless; since, being directed to a
magistrate who has no power to deviate from the law by a tribunal awing and ..."
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