0 with the mouth open, especially showing surprise or shock: --
We watched, our mouths agape in excitement.
1 a type of love that is not sexual and is not concerned with yourself; used especially in Christianity to refer to Christian love: --
The whales then lunge feed, often as a synchronised group, suddenly swimming upward through the net, mouths agape, swallowing thousands of fish in one gulp.
There are, however, three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity (which is used interchangeably with love in the sense of "agape").
The other three are "storge", "philia" and "agape".
Many members of the astonished audience were seen on camera with mouths visibly agape with surprise.
However, there are some examples of "agape" used to mean the same as "eros".
The highest form of contemplation originates in the heart (see agape), a higher form of contemplation than that of the intellect.
I am rather sardonically amused at the way in which it is the secularists whose mouths are agape when they come across sin, as if they cannot understand it.
It coherently combines a variety of attitudes which might otherwise be at odds with each other (not least the vexing distinction between eros and agape, need and gift love).
