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Definition of Awestruck
1. Adjective. Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread. "In grim despair and awestruck wonder"
Definition of Awestruck
1. a. Struck with awe.
Definition of Awestruck
1. Adjective. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder ¹
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Definition of Awestruck
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Awestruck
Literary usage of Awestruck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Latinus too Stood awestruck to behold such champions, born In lands far-sundered,
met upon one field For one decisive stroke of sword with sword. ..."
2. The Garter Mission to Japan (1906)
"Small wonder that it should have inspired poets and painters : small wonder that
men, awestruck, should have worshipped it as a God ! ..."
3. The Bookman (1911)
"Wonder and astonishment sit throned among his thoughts, the wonder of the awestruck
child at divine mysteries, the enduring astonishment of the man who ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"He is resigned that his little Magdalene should die, yet longs inexpressibly that
she might live;—follows, in awestruck thought, the flight of her little ..."
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