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awe-ful en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of awful (“full of awe; awe-inspiring”) used to distinguish from other senses..
   alt of awful
   • The end of the twentieth century, and the end of the millennium, is an awful—and an awe-ful—time to live in.[…]I can’t help viewing the increasing chaos and tension of our millennial society with a sense of profound wonder. It almost seems like a natural force at work on us, or even a supernatural force. Who knows? I don’t try to understand it. But I do remember what it means to me, personally, living through an awe-ful time in an awe-ful society on an awe-ful planet. It means: everything is part of a pattern. Hale-Bopp, the incredible shrinking moon, the medieval kooks and the modern-day wackos—and me. Something big is always going on. 1997 April 3, Scott Sharplin, “Boppin’ Along to the Tune of the Millennium”, in The Gateway, volume 86, number 45, page 24:
   • If the keepers of the sacred corral discovered paternity in their stock breeding, then that knowledge would have been seen as numinous, awe-ful, and unconsciously unsettling. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, “Agriculturalization”, in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part two (The Transformations of Prehistory), page 124:
   • We might be able to watch how a thing works without separating it from the very mystery of creation of which it is an integral part. This is awe-ful science. My friend Jerry, an American living in Peru, is an awe-ful scientist. 2014, John Philip Davidson, “Soul Tribes and Tambos”, in Soul Tribes and Tambos: Communities for Souls on the Move, HeartWorks Publishing, →ISBN, section “Awe-Ful Science”, page 123:

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