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Meanings of awe in English

Portuguese
temor
Catalan
veneració
Spanish
terror

A feeling of profound respect for someone or something.

        temor
        Usage of awe in English
        1
        Now that people view me with awe, I have the opposite problem.
        Paul of dune
        2
        The first emotion was surprise; the second, awe; the third, pious fervour.
        Excellent Women
        3
        The Dominican uttered a loud cry; the guards started back in awe.
        Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II.
        4
        And yet he shrank back in awe at the change in it.
        The Crisis — Volume 07
        5
        With nothing but local materials? Tishona said, looking at them with awe.
        The Land of Painted Caves
        6
        Vernell said local police tended to be in awe of the Bureau.
        Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
        7
        And yet he also fills me with awe for what is possible.
        Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
        8
        Marco gazed at it in silence, and with a feeling of awe.
        Forests of Maine / Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowled...
        9
        The awe of the magician became the stricken panic of the woman.
        The Thing from the Lake
        10
        The respect and awe in the eyes of his friend halted him.
        Erik Dorn
        11
        Throughout his incomparable boxing career, Mike Tyson often left us in awe.
        Ebony
        12
        Even walking the links as they are today, one is left awe-struck.
        The Guardian
        13
        But it was more in awe than in fear that he went.
        Donal Grant
        14
        Gaudy and brash the begonias left me in a state of awe.
        The Guardian
        15
        The riders all sat in silent awe at the sight before them.
        Polly of Pebbly Pit
        16
        Even today, professional mathematicians are still in awe of things he did.
        Wired
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        Portuguese
        temor
        Catalan
        veneració
        Awe through the time
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        United Kingdom
        Common
        Australia
        Common
        South Africa
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