The word 'overawed' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is filled with a great sense of awe, reverence, or fear. Example sentence: He was overawed by the power of the storm.
He might be a greenhorn but he was not overawed.
Certainly nothing is more essential to the survival in freedom of small peripheral countries which might otherwise be harried and cowed into subjection by the communist powers though this reasoning will scarcely be uppermost in the minds of peoples who are already either attracted or overawed by communist feats.
Harder than it looks Witness in paint Authorised life ReprintsThat original secrecy Mr Kissinger was sufficiently paranoid about leaks to do away with American interpreters allowed the small handful of American officials involved in China policy to be overawed, and to fall for Chinese flattery.
This feeling of being overawed, under-equipped but well-rewarded is familiar to anyone lucky enough to write about China's vertiginous economy.
Older players advise youngsters not to be overawed.
In "Liberal und Unabhängig" (Liberal and Independent) he is respectful about a man he knew and dealt with, but without being overawed by him.
She is not overawed by threats of violence, legal action (the latter especially deployed by republicans) and the frequent rising temperature of hate.But it is not all trouble, and she writes movingly about the rank and file of the loyal institutions, their lives and their families.
He was overawed by the holiness the otherness of his God and must have thought that the customary gifts of meat, grain, and flattery were unseemly or, at the least, irrelevant.
Overawed by British sea power and by the fortress of Halifax, Nova Scotians at first kept quiet, and later many of them even made fortunes privateering against American commerce.
The native Irish were overawed by the presence of an English king, and the local chieftains, or "High Kings," all attended the court in Dublin to submit to his authority.
