aweful

aweful (comparative more aweful, superlative most aweful)

1. Obsolete spelling of awful.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 20–21:

     Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly, and Sir Thomas seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating; he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment—and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less aweful character of the two.

2. Misspelling of awful.
3. Alternative spelling of awe-ful(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

• agheful, aghful, aȝefull, aheful, auful, aughfull, awfull
• auchfull (Early Scots); aȝhefull (Ormulum)

From awe +‎ -ful. Compare eyeful.

• IPA^(key): /ˈau̯(ə)ful/
• IPA^(key): /ˈaɣəful/ (Early Middle English)

aweful (chiefly Northern)

1. awe-inspiring, wondrous, awesome
2. (rare) awful, horrible

• English: awful
• Middle Scots: awfull
  • Scots: awfu, aafa, affy, awfie

• “aueful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 April 2018.