Meanings
adjectiveoverawful (comparative more overawful, superlative most overawful)
comparative more overawful · superlative most overawful
- obsoleteExcessively awful (awe-inspiring or reverential).
[T]o free ingenuous minds from that over-awfull eſteeme of thoſe more ancient then truſty fathers […]
1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, pages 30–31
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