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The Collaborative International Dictionary
aweless

Awless \Aw"less\ ([add]"l[e^]s), a.

  1. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. ``Awless insolence.''
    --Dryden.

  2. Inspiring no awe. [Obs.] ``The awless throne.''
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
aweless

a. 1 Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. 2 Inspiring no awe. alt. 1 Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. 2 Inspiring no awe.

WordNet
aweless
  1. adj. devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence [syn: awless]

  2. neither feeling nor showing respect [syn: awless, disrespectful]

Usage examples of "aweless".

Till human thoughts might kneel alone, Each before the judgement-throne Of its own aweless soul, or of the Power unknown!

Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony.

Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.