Awfulness
['ɔ:fulnis]
Definition
(n.) The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
(n.) The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence.
Editor: Moll
Examples
- The sense of the awfulness of riches that could never be impaired flooded her mind like a swoon, a death in most marvellous possession, mystic-sure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Inputed by Elliot