Definition of "overawing" []

• Present participle of overawe. (verb)

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• "And he puts forward a description of two institutional settings within which social action takes place: the state of nature, where no "overawing" political institutions exist; and the sovereign state, where a single sovereign power imposes a set of laws regulating individuals' actions."
• "Like any people with a larger and busier government overawing the private sector and civil society?"
• "That Washington, a city of white marble palaces with splendid staircases, overawing halls and ornate assembly rooms, still rules how many people think of today's Washington."