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- awelessness noun
Etymology
Origin of aweless
Example Sentences
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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?
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
Then ceased I from my envying state, And knew that aweless intellect Hath power upon the ways of Fate, And works through time and space uncheck'd.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various
Overhead, an aweless eagle, rising wing above wing says to his sweetheart, "It is my opinion God made these mountains for no other reason than that you and I might build our nest in them....."
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
But 'neath the weight Of doom his aweless heart, his mighty limbs, At last were overborne.
From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders
Bold-hearted child of aweless Aeacus' son, This as beseems a hero princely and brave, Dauntlessly trusting in thy strength, thou say'st.
From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders
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