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agape
/əˈɡeɪp/
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What does agape mean?
adjective
- In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
- Wide open.
adverb
- In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
More meanings (4)
adverb
- Open wide.
noun
- The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.
- Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.
- A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈɡeɪp/
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At the base of the mortar dome the cells are wide agape and display their contents.
At last Farfrae’s man, who had been agape on the doorstep, came up; then the cook.
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With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy!
And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape, Bearing a vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas--the Grape!
With a curve and a sweep he circles round, down come the long bony legs, the bald and hideous neck is extended, and with talons quivering for the rotting flesh, and cruel beak agape, he hurries on to his repast, the embodiment of everything ghoul-like and ghastly.