agaze

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English

Etymology

From a- (to) + gaze (look at something intently).

Adjective

agaze (not comparable)

  1. (not attributive) Gazing.
    • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 1, p. 9:
      [] fathers and sons agaze at each other’s haggardness, like groups from a hundred Hunger-towers turned out beneath the mid-day sun.
    • 1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts, Oxford University, page 313:
      The two who were left behind stood agaze at each other, listening to the creak of Carroll's footsteps on the stairs, to the jar of bolt and chain as the ...
    • 1904, Millicent Sutherland, Walter Crane, Wayfarer's Love: Contributions from Living Poets, Harvard University, page 66:
      With mild eyes agaze, and lips ready to speak, ...
    • 1981, Samuel Beckett, Ill Seen Ill Said, New York: Grove, pages 49–50:
      True too that the eyes then agaze for the viewless planet are now closed.