Crossword clues for awing
awing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awe \Awe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Awed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Awing.] To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
That same eye whose bend doth awe the world.
--Shak.
His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the
bystanders.
--Macaulay.
Awing \A*wing"\, adv. [Pref. a- + wing.]
On the wing; flying; fluttering.
--Wallace.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of inspiring with awe," 1650s, verbal noun from awe (v.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 adv. On the wing; flying; fluttering. Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of awe English)
WordNet
adj. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "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"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful]
Usage examples of "awing".
Brian Boru had used it as his audience chamber as well as his banqueting hall, calculatedly awing visitors with an ostentatious display of gold cups and bejeweled goblets on every table in the room.
He had seen Ione, bright, pure, unsullied, in the midst of the gayest and most profligate gallants of Pompeii, charming rather than awing the boldest into respect, and changing the very nature of the most sensual and the least ideal—as by her intellectual and refining spells she reversed the fable of Circe, and converted the animals into men.