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English
Etymology
Back-formation from awestruck. By surface analysis, awe + strike
Verb
awestrike (third-person singular simple present awestrikes, present participle awestriking, simple past awestruck, past participle awestruck or awestricken)
- (transitive, now rare) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.
1835, Mary Shelley, chapter 7, in Lodore, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, pages 98–99:The idea of these “ladies” at first annoyed him; but the humble habitation which they had chosen—humble to poverty—impressed him with the belief that, however the “ladies” might awe-strike the Welsh peasantry, he should find in them nothing that would impress him with the idea of station.
1865, Samuel Neil, “Papal Supremacy”, in Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 62:Ceremony is a scarecrow to awe-strike fools.
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