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awestrike en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from awestruck. By surface analysis, awe + strike

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.
   • 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. 1835, Mary Shelley, chapter 7, in Lodore, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, pages 98–99:
   • Ceremony is a scarecrow to awe-strike fools. 1865, Samuel Neil, “Papal Supremacy”, in Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 62:
   • Behold the God himself, whose dreadful brow Awe-strikes the soul to speechless homage! 1822, Henry Hart Milman, The Martyr of Antioch, London: John Murray, page 140:

Forms

Translations (1)

fi lyödä ällikällä (to strike with awe)