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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Awe n.
 1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent]
 His frown was full of terror, and his voice
 Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe.   --Cowper.
 2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
 There is an awe in mortals' joy,
 A deep mysterious fear.   --Keble.
    To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe.   --Macaulay.
    The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power.   --C. J. Smith.
 To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.
 Syn: -- See Reverence.