How to pronounce“agape”in English
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Definitions of “agape”
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.”
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.”
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”
Open wide.
“Its mouth yawned agape”
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