恐きょう懼く感かん激げき

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

struck with awe; deeply moved with awe

A yojijukugo expressing a state of being overwhelmed by a profound sense of awe and deep emotion, often in response to something sublime or majestic. Literary and somewhat formal.

• 彼かれは大だい自し然ぜんの雄ゆう大だいさに恐きょう懼く感かん激げきした。

  He was struck with awe at the grandeur of nature.

• その演えん奏そうを聴きいて、観かん客きゃくは恐きょう懼く感かん激げきの念ねんに打うたれた。

  Listening to the performance, the audience was filled with a sense of awe and deep emotion.