v. [f. next by analysis.] To strike with awe. Hence Awe-striking ppl. a.
1832. Athenæum, No. 253. 568. An image such as he might well have awe-struck an idolatrous crowd.
1845. Kinglake, Eöthen, xxix. 418. Preparations … for giving us an awe-striking reception.
1850. De Quincey, in Page, Life (1877), II. xvii. 71. To shock, to startle and awe-strike.
1861. Thackeray, Lovel, iv. With that air she had often awe-stricken good, simple Mr. Bonnington.
