reverential+fear

  • 11Awful — Aw ful, a. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. The hour of Nature s awful throes. Hemans. [1913 Webster] 2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 12LOVE — In the Bible In the Bible, love has, like the word love in most languages, many and various shades of meaning. HEBREW WORDS FOR LOVE. It is represented by Hebrew words which range from sensuous, and often evil, desire or passionate love between… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 13fearful — 1 Fearful, apprehensive, afraid are comparable when they mean inspired or moved by fear. In such use they are normally followed by of, that, or lest, afraid being never and fearful and apprehensive infrequently used attributively in this sense.… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 14dread — dreadable, adj. dreadness, n. /dred/, v.t. 1. to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death. 2. to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience: I dread going to big parties. 3. Archaic. to hold in respectful awe. v.i. 4. to be in… …

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  • 15Awe — ([add]), n. [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin to AS. ege, [=o]ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear, Gr. a chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail. [root]3. Cf. {Ugly}.] 1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or… …

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  • 16To stand in awe of — Awe Awe ([add]), n. [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin to AS. ege, [=o]ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear, Gr. a chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail. [root]3. Cf. {Ugly}.] 1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect.… …

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  • 17awe — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fear, dread; wonder. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. reverence, wonder, reverential fear; see fear 2 , reverence 1 . See Synonym Study at reverence . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wonder, fear, reverence …

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  • 18dread — [[t]drɛd[/t]] v. t. 1) to fear greatly: to dread death[/ex] 2) to be very reluctant to do, meet, or experience 3) archaic to hold in respectful awe 4) to have fear or great reluctance 5) terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great …

    From formal English to slang

  • 19awe — /ɔ / (say aw) noun 1. respectful or reverential fear, inspired by what is grand or sublime: to regard the works of nature with awe. 2. Obsolete a. fear or dread. b. the power to inspire such fear or dread. –verb (t) (awed, awing) 3. to inspire… …

  • 20awed — adj. awful; showing awe; struck with reverential fear, awestruck ɔː n. fear, fright; respect, veneration v. arouse respect or fear, amaze, intimidate …

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