What is "to 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.

1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent]

   His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe.
   --Cowper.

2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.

   There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear.
   --Keble.

   To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe.
   --Macaulay.

   The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power.
   --C. J. Smith.

   To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.

   Syn: See Reverence.