awestrike

English

Etymology

Back-formation from awestruck. By surface analysis, awe +‎ strike

Verb

awestrike (third-person singular simple present awestrikes, present participle awestriking, simple past awestruck, past participle awestruck or awestricken)

1. (transitive, now rare) To strike (someone) with awe; to make (someone) awestruck.
   • 1822, Henry Hart Milman, The Martyr of Antioch‎^[1], London: John Murray, page 140:

     Behold the God himself, whose dreadful brow
     Awe-strikes the soul to speechless homage!

   • 1835, Mary Shelley, chapter 7, in Lodore‎^[2], volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, pages 98–99:

     The idea of these “ladies” at first annoyed him; but the humble habitation which they had chosen—humble to poverty—impressed him with the belief that, however the “ladies” might awe-strike the Welsh peasantry, he should find in them nothing that would impress him with the idea of station.

   • 1865, Samuel Neil, “Papal Supremacy”, in Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives‎^[3], Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 62:

     Ceremony is a scarecrow to awe-strike fools.

Translations

to strike with awe

• Finnish: lyödä ällikällä (fi)