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awing
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 adv. On the wing; flying; fluttering. Etymology 2 vb. (present participle of awe English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of inspiring with awe," 1650s, verbal noun from awe (v.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awing \A*wing"\, adv. [Pref. a- + wing.] On the wing; flying; fluttering. --Wallace.
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.