awestrike
English
Verb
awestrike (third-person singular simple present awestrikes, present participle awestriking, simple past awestruck, past participle awestruck or awestricken)
- (transitive, now rare) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.
- 1822, Henry Hart Milman, The Martyr of Antioch, London: John Murray, page 140:
- Behold the God himself, whose dreadful brow
Awe-strikes the soul to speechless homage!
- 1835, Mary Shelley, chapter 7, in Lodore, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, pages 98–99:
- The idea of these “ladies” at first annoyed him; but the humble habitation which they had chosen—humble to poverty—impressed him with the belief that, however the “ladies” might awe-strike the Welsh peasantry, he should find in them nothing that would impress him with the idea of station.
- 1865, Samuel Neil, “Papal Supremacy”, in Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 62:
- Ceremony is a scarecrow to awe-strike fools.
Translations
to strike with awe
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