awe-ful

See also: aweful

English

Adjective

awe-ful (comparative more awe-ful, superlative most awe-ful)

1. Alternative form of awful (“full of awe; inspring awe”) used to distinguish from other senses.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, “Agriculturalization”, in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part two (The Transformations of Prehistory), page 124:

     If the keepers of the sacred corral discovered paternity in their stock breeding, then that knowledge would have been seen as numinous, awe-ful, and unconsciously unsettling.

   • 1997 April 3, Scott Sharplin, “Boppin’ Along to the Tune of the Millennium”, in The Gateway, volume 86, number 45, page 24:

     The end of the twentieth century, and the end of the millennium, is an awful—and an awe-ful—time to live in. […] I can’t help viewing the increasing chaos and tension of our millennial society with a sense of profound wonder. It almost seems like a natural force at work on us, or even a supernatural force. Who knows? I don’t try to understand it. But I do remember what it means to me, personally, living through an awe-ful time in an awe-ful society on an awe-ful planet. It means: everything is part of a pattern. Hale-Bopp, the incredible shrinking moon, the medieval kooks and the modern-day wackos—and me. Something big is always going on.

   • 2014, John Philip Davidson, “Soul Tribes and Tambos”, in Soul Tribes and Tambos: Communities for Souls on the Move, HeartWorks Publishing, →ISBN, section “Awe-Ful Science”, page 123:

     We might be able to watch how a thing works without separating it from the very mystery of creation of which it is an integral part. This is awe-ful science. My friend Jerry, an American living in Peru, is an awe-ful scientist.