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awestricken

awest·ric·ken

uncommon

adjective

1.

having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

  • “stood in awed silence before the shrine”
  • “in grim despair and awestruck wonder”
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Origin

From awe + stricken.

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