Dictionary Entry

awed

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ɔːd/Used In Literature ↓

To inspire fear and reverence in.

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Common Phrases

. awedsilence awedvoice awed

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Poetry examples for “awed”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

3 Awed, on my bended knees I fell,
Received the weapons of the sky;

2 Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour,
Not grave through pride, or gay through folly,

Sylvia my heart in wondrous wise alarm'd
Awed without sense, and without beauty charm'd:
But some odd graces and some flights she had,

Until that churl shall nowhere be
Who bends not, awed, before the throne
Of her affecting majesty,

Grew, in her presence, cold and shy.
It awed me, as an angel's might
In raiment of reproachful light.

I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:--
Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;
And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past

His father and his grandsire known to fame;
Awed by that house, accustomed to command,
The sturdy kerns in due subjection stand,

Endymion too, without a forest peer.
Stood, wan, and pale, and with an awed face.
Among his brothers of the mountain chase.

Was awed into delight, and by the charm
Girt as with an interminable zone, _35

When in your eyes resistless lightnings play,
Awed into love our conquer'd hearts obey,
And yield reluctant to despotic sway: