"awe-full" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more awe-full [comparative], most awe-full [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|head=awe-full}} awe-full (comparative more awe-full, superlative most awe-full)
  1. Alternative form of awful (“full of awe; awe-inspiring”) used to distinguish from other senses. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: awful (extra: (“full of awe; awe-inspiring”) used to distinguish from other senses)
    Sense id: en-awe-full-en-adj-NfRPBG9W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Comparatively few dwell where he dwelt. It is an “awe-full” place. Isaiah expressed this vividly in Isaiah 33:14: / Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?",
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          "text": "O God, that mercy, whose majestic brow / Should be unwrinkled, and that awe-full justice, / Which looketh through a veil of sufferance / Upon the frailty of the multitude, / Should with the clamours of outrageous wrongs / Be stirred and wakened thus to punishment!",
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