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Agape
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- 1 In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
"[…] in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape."
- 2 Wide open.
"With his mouth agape and his hands clenched, Rufus Dawes, incapable of further speech, made a last effort to nod assent, but his head fell upon his breast; the next moment, the flickering light, the gloomy prison, the eager face of the doctor, and the astonished face of Vickers, vanished from before his straining eyes."
- 1 with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe wordnet
- 1 In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
"Three of us--two biologists and I--were crouched behind a huge boulder at the water's edge and staring agape as the largest bear I ever saw came toward us"
- 2 Open wide.
"Its mouth yawned agape"
- 1 The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others. uncountable
- 2 a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship wordnet
- 3 Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others. uncountable
- 4 selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature) wordnet
- 5 A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist. countable
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- 6 (Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind wordnet
Etymology
From a- + gape. First known use by John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).
From a- + gape. First known use by John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).
From Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē).
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