a. [f. AWE sb. + -SOME. (Chiefly Scotch.)]
1. Full of awe, profoundly reverential.
1598. R. Bernard, Terence’ Adelphi, v. iii. Wise and wittie, in due place awsome, louing one the other.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xi. ‘He did gie an awesome glance up at the auld castle.’
1880. Daily Tel., 2 Dec., 5/1. That ‘Berserker rage’—the wolf-skinned rage—of which the Scandinavian chroniclers tell us in terms of awesome admiration.
2. Inspiring awe; appalling, dreadful, weird.
1671. Rutherford, Lett., 1. cciii. (Jam.). A sight of his cross is more awsome than the weight of it.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxvi. ‘It ’s awsome to hear your gudemither break out in that gait.’
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 256. Together did the awesome sisters cry.
