[f. AWE v. + -ING1.] The action of inspiring with awe.
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.
1877. Morris, Sigurd, II. (1880), 151. The Helm of Aweing, that the Fear of earth-folk bore.