awefulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

aweful (comparative more aweful, superlative most aweful)

1. Obsolete spelling of awful.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 20–21:

     Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly, and Sir Thomas seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating; he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment—and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less aweful character of the two.

2. Misspelling of awful.

別の表記

• agheful, aghful, aȝefull, aheful, auful, aughfull, awfull
• auchfull (Early Scots); aȝhefull (Ormulum)

形容詞

awe-ful (comparative more awe-ful, superlative most awe-ful)

1. Alternative form of awful (“full of awe; awe-inspiring”) used to distinguish from other senses.

   Alternative form: awe-full

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, “Agriculturalization”, in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part two (The Transformations of Prehistory), page 124:

     If the keepers of the sacred corral discovered paternity in their stock breeding, then that knowledge would have been seen as numinous, awe-ful, and unconsciously unsettling.

   • 1997 April 3, Scott Sharplin, “Boppin’ Along to the Tune of the Millennium”, in The Gateway, volume 86, number 45, page 24:

     The end of the twentieth century, and the end of the millennium, is an awful—and an awe-ful—time to live in. […] I can’t help viewing the increasing chaos and tension of our millennial society with a sense of profound wonder. It almost seems like a natural force at work on us, or even a supernatural force. Who knows? I don’t try to understand it. But I do remember what it means to me, personally, living through an awe-ful time in an awe-ful society on an awe-ful planet. It means: everything is part of a pattern. Hale-Bopp, the incredible shrinking moon, the medieval kooks and the modern-day wackos—and me. Something big is always going on.

   • 2014, John Philip Davidson, “Soul Tribes and Tambos”, in Soul Tribes and Tambos: Communities for Souls on the Move, HeartWorks Publishing, →ISBN, section “Awe-Ful Science”, page 123:

     We might be able to watch how a thing works without separating it from the very mystery of creation of which it is an integral part. This is awe-ful science. My friend Jerry, an American living in Peru, is an awe-ful scientist.