aweful

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English

Adjective

aweful (comparative more aweful, superlative most aweful)

  1. Obsolete spelling of awful.
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 20–21:
      Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly, and Sir Thomas seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating; he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment—and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less aweful character of the two.
  2. Misspelling of awful.
  3. Alternative spelling of awe-ful(Can we verify(+) this sense?)