overawful

English

Etymology

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; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:

     free ingenuous minds from an overawful esteem of those more ancient than trusty fathers

References

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