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noun

Awfulness n.

The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. "The awfulness of grandeur."

The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. (Obs.) "Producing in us reverence and awfulness."

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Etymology of 'Awfulness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Awfulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... because of her black alpaca frock, which impressed their imaginations a good deal. This wore off as the frock wore out, and by the time that Eyebright had ripped out half the gathers of the waist and torn a hole in the sleeve, which was pretty soon, the alpaca lost its awfulness in their eyes, and had become as any common dress. In the course of a week or two, Eyebright found herself studying, playing, and walking at recess with Bessie, quite in the old way. But all the while she was conscious of a change, and a feeling which she fought with, but could not get ...

— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge

... solemn awfulness of the place and scene oppressed her. She began to think that she, ...

— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard

... doctrine that the chastisement of crimes belonged in an especial manner to the Sovereign as representative and mandatary of his people. The new view differed from the old one chiefly in the air of awfulness and majesty which the guardianship of justice appeared to throw around the ...

— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

... tried to believe it was sunburn, only I could not. I knew better. No one noticed it but me. No one ever noticed it except Stephen Kaluna, and I did not know that till afterward. But I saw it coming, the whole damnable, unnamable awfulness of it; but I refused to think about the future. I was afraid. I could not. And of nights I cried ...

— The House of Pride • Jack London

... him, that Softness in her Look and Sighs, upon the melancholy Occasion of this Honour that was done by so great a Man as Oroonoko, and a Prince of whom she had heard such admirable Things; the Awfulness wherewith she receiv'd him, and the Sweetness of her Words and Behaviour while he stay'd, gain'd a perfect Conquest over his fierce Heart, and made him feel, the Victor could be subdu'd. So that having made his first Compliments, ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

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