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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

... truth, she did not even see by the shocked expression of their faces the awfulness of the thing they thought she confessed, and the obviousness of the reason to which their minds ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... sat by mother's pillow, my mind full of the dread that seemed now as if it might any moment be realized,—of the awfulness of being left alone in that living tomb with the marble image of what was and yet was not my mother, the clock struck nine in the morning. Somewhere the sun was shining, I thought. Somewhere there were happy lovers, merry-makings in ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various

... as he might, there was no mistaking the awfulness of the charge he brought against her. He had as good as taxed her with neglecting Baby. She had recourse to subterfuge; she sheltered herself behind lies, laid on one on the top of the other, little silly transparent lies, but such a thundering lot of them that Ranny could say of each ...

— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair

... crystal cross of Life, and between her mantle's purple folds gleamed the eyes of her snake girdle. She sat awhile in silence speaking no word, and all the women wondered at her glory and at dead Pharaoh's awfulness. Then at length she spoke, low indeed, but so clearly that every word reached the ...

— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang

... the awfulness of it; felt smaller than ever, backed away from the rim of the canyon, and ...

— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

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