agape

UK /əˈɡeɪp/ US /əˈɡeɪp/
noun 3adj 2adv 2

Definitions

adj

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.

There I stand, agape like any country bumpkin

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.

He tries not to tear his victim's stockings, or whip too close to her stretched vulva, which shivers, unprotected, between thighs agape and straining, amid movements of muscle erotic, subdued, “monumental” as any silver memory of her body on film.

adv

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

"This is Sammy 91," he told the two dozen tourists watching agape."

2

Open wide.

Its mouth yawned agape

The bathroom door stood agape, and the peeling vinyl floor was bare.

noun

1

The love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.

2

Spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for others.

3

A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.

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