[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Causing dread, reverential fear, or solemnity.
1632. J. Hayward, Eromena, 188. This queene bare in her countenance … an awing majestie.
1799. S. Turner, Anglo-Sax. (1828), I. i. 24. The awing head of Memnon.
1881. Mary A. Lewis, Two Pretty Girls, I. 187. There is something awing in looking down upon the great city that lies asleep below.
