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Overawed

adjective

Overcome by a feeling of awe.

Overawe

verb

(past & past part. overawed; pres. part. overawing)

Subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats). Synonym: cow.

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"Overawed" Quotes from Famous Books

... darkness of night! These are the mighty works of the Lord, and of none other—unspoiled and unobscured. In them He proclaims Himself. They who have not known before that the heavens and the earth are the handiwork of God, here discover it: and perceive the Presence and the Power, and are ashamed and overawed. Thus our land works its marvel in the sensitive soul. I have sometimes thought that in the waste is sounded the great keynote of life—with which true hearts ever seek to vibrate ...

— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan

... and Julia's place at table was next to the kindly old doctor, who only saw an extremely pretty girl, and joked with her, and looked out for her comfort in true fatherly fashion. Julia carried herself with great dignity, said very little, being in truth quite overawed and nervously anxious not to betray herself, and after the first frightened half-hour ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... Here, speechless, overawed, and with the loftiest emotions sweeping over their souls, Job Malden and Jane Reed stood alone amid a silence broken only by the sighing of ...

— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher

... such a high opinion of the Germans?' said Pavel Petrovitch, with exaggerated courtesy. He was beginning to feel a secret irritation. His aristocratic nature was revolted by Bazarov's absolute nonchalance. This surgeon's son was not only not overawed, he even gave abrupt and indifferent answers, and in the tone of his voice there was ...

— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... seemed to her like so many great eyes all staring at her. She began to wish that she was safe back in her granny's cottage again, but consoled herself by thinking that as long as she had hold of Geordie's hand nothing very dreadful could possibly happen. Geordie, too, was somewhat overawed by the nearer view of the "big hoose," which certainly seemed much more formidable in its dimensions than it did from the moorland, where he used to get a glimpse of it while he watched the sheep, and then it looked no larger than the grey cairn which he made his watch-tower, but now it seemed to ...

— Geordie's Tryst - A Tale of Scottish Life • Mrs. Milne Rae

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