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awful (adj.)
c. 1300,
agheful
"worthy of respect or fear," from
aghe
, an earlier form of
awe
(n.), +
-ful
. The Old English word was
egefull
. Weakened sense "very bad" is from 1809; weakened sense of "exceedingly" is by 1818.
