vad är definitionen av awe?

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awe Definition på svenska

0 a feeling of great respect sometimes mixed with fear or surprise: --
- You can't help but stand in awe of (= respect greatly and fear slightly) powerful people.
- As children we were rather in awe of our grandfather.
- I've always held musicians in awe.
1 to cause someone to feel awe: --
- The audience was awed into silence by her stunning performance.
- Her paintings have awed and amazed the public for half a century.
- I was awed but not frightened by the huge gorilla.
2 a feeling of great respect, usually mixed with fear or surprise: --
- Niagara Falls is an awe-inspiring sight.
- I was too much in awe of him to address him directly.

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Coal miners have in this sense become at once morally marginal and symbolically central, both despised and held in awe.
Why they should feel this supreme awe of man it is difficult to explain.
Price writes that the yielding response is also a source of awe and facilitates the psychological investment that followers place in the leader.
I was in awe of the temper of the sound and the lyrics.
So it appeared to be suspended in the air; it must have been an awe-inspiring sight.
I have been in awe of him since.
The effect is one of generosity, verticality, exclusivity, grandeur, dignity, awe.
The people held this idol in such reverence and awe that no one but his keepers dared approach or touch him.

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