overawful
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
overawful (comparative more overawful, superlative most overawful)
- (obsolete) Excessively awful (awe-inspiring or reverential).
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- free ingenuous minds from an overawful esteem of those more ancient than trusty fathers
References edit
- “overawful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.