a. [UN-1 7.]
† 1. Not inspired or tinged with awe. Obs.
1627. Wren, Serm. bef. King, 17 Feb., 33. All negligent and perfunctorie performance of our Religion, all slight and unawful Expressions in it, as in Gods presence, are the foulest Scorn and Abasement that may be.
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 70. Men come with as unprepared, unreverent, unawfull, and undevout thoughts and affections to a sermon, as to a play.
2. Not inspiring or causing awe.
1799. H. T. Colebrooke, in Life (1873), 422. In the valleys the gloomy confined view is not unawful.
1826. Milman, Anne Boleyn, iii. 50. I go … where wild men howl around Their blood stain’d altars—to uplift th’ unknown, Unawful Crucifix.
