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awe (noun, verb):
noun
1 : an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime
2 archaic a : dread, terror
b : the power to inspire dread
verb
: to inspire or fill with awe
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Noun
Middle English aw, awe, ahe “terror, dread, extreme reverence, veneration, something to be feared, danger,” borrowed from Old Norse agi, accusative aga “terror, uproar,” n-stem derivative from a Germanic base *ag- seen in the s-stem noun *agaz (whence Old English ege “fear, terror” [with assimilation to i-stems], Gothic agis) and a verbal derivative *agisojan- (whence Old High German egison “to fear,” Middle Dutch eisen) and a corresponding noun derivative *agisan- (whence Old English egesa, egsa “fear, terror,” Old Saxon egiso, Old High German agiso, egiso); Germanic *agaz perhaps going back to Indo-European *hegh-os, whence also Greek áchos “pain, distress”
Verb
Middle English awen “to terrify, overawe,” derivative of awe “terror
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