Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wanting awe or reverence; void of deferential fear.
- Wanting the power of inspiring reverence or awe.
- Also spelled
awless .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
awless .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Wanting
reverence ; void of respectful fear. - adjective Inspiring no
awe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective neither feeling nor showing respect
- adjective devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence
Etymologies
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Examples
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This insensitive viewpoint, aweless before the cosmic spectacle, arouses a train of events which brings its own awakening.
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This insensitive viewpoint, aweless before the cosmic spectacle, arouses a train of events which brings its own awakening.
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A pessimist might have seen a portent in the cynical amusement of her smile, and another in the aweless speed with which Gilfoyle and Kedzie hustled toward the awful mystery of such a union as marriage attempts.
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Sorrow closes the lot of such aweless, unbridled madness: stability is for the calmly reverent life, knitting whole houses in sweet domestic harmony.
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Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.
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As the official photographer for Vanity Fair's Oscar shindig for roughly a decade, Fink has made Hollywood parties look as fatiguing as they are fabulous, and his aweless impressions are now collected in "The Vanities" Schirmer/Mosel, $68.
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We must make allowance for the intoxication of recent triumph and final victory over a triumphing and victorious enemy; or who but would start back at the aweless temerity of this assertion?
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"If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god."
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"If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god."
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"If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god.".
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