overawful

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ awful.

Adjective

overawful (comparative more overawful, superlative most overawful)

1. (obsolete) Excessively awful (awe-inspiring or reverential).
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, pages 30–31:

     [T]o free ingenuous minds from that over-awfull eſteeme of thoſe more ancient then truſty fathers […]

References

• “overawful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.