awe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might: We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach. The observers were in awe of the destructive power of the new weapon.
2. n. Archaic The power to inspire dread.
3. n. Archaic Dread.
4. v. To inspire with awe.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Dread; fear, as of something evil.
2. n. Fear mingled with admiration or reverence; reverential fear; feeling inspired by something sublime, not necessarily partaking of the nature of fear or dread.
3. n. Overawing influence.
4. n. Synonyms Reverence, Veneration, etc. See reverence, n.
5. To inspire with fear or dread; terrify; control or restrain by the influence of fear.
6. To strike with awe, reverence, or respect; influence by exciting profound respect or reverential fear.
7. To owe.
8. n. One of the float-boards of an undershot water-wheel, on which the water acts.
9. n. One of the sails of a windmill.

Wiktionary

1. n. A feeling of fear and reverence.
2. n. A feeling of amazement.
3. v. transitive To inspire fear and reverence.
4. v. transitive To control by inspiring dread.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Obs. or Obsolescent Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
2. n. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
3. v. To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. inspire awe in
2. n. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
3. n. an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration