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English
Adjective
awe-stricken (comparative more awe-stricken, superlative most awe-stricken)
- Alternative form of awestricken (“awestruck”)
1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented , volume I, London: James R Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC, phase the second (Maiden No More), page 184:While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed— […]
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