awe-stricken
See also: awestricken
English
Adjective
awe-stricken (comparative more awe-stricken, superlative most awe-stricken)
- Alternative form of awestricken (“awestruck”)
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666, phase the fourth (The Consequence), page 184:
- While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed— […]
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References
- awe-stricken in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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