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Awing

adjective
1.
Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.  Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful.  "The Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" , "The awesome complexity of the universe" , "This sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath" , "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"



Awe

verb
(past & past part. awed; pres. part. awing)
1.
Inspire awe in.



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"Awing" Quotes from Famous Books



... house. Though the author of that mischief was nowhere to be seen, they knew it was the elephant. There was no alternative but to accept that explanation; and it was not the act itself that was awing them, but the contemplation of the human-like, or rather demon-like, intelligence that had guided the animal thither, and instructed it to this act of retribution, perhaps only preliminary to a still ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid



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