[f. AWE v. + -ING1.] The action of inspiring with awe.

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1656.  J. Chaloner, Isle of Man, in D. King, Vale Royall, IV. 32. He might have had in his eye the awing of the Natives.

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1877.  Morris, Sigurd, II. (1880), 151. The Helm of Aweing, that the Fear of earth-folk bore.

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