Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being cast down; prostration; depression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Dejection; depression.
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- noun obsolete
dejection ;depression
Etymologies
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Examples
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The three pastors learnt the ablutions (wudu)the prosternation (sujud), and shahadatain (la ila illa allah muhammad rasul allah).
Islam and the Blessed Virgin Mary Terry Nelson 2006
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God, to God: either of which, singly considered, might justly make us fear and tremble; how much more may this threefold cord bow and bind our hearts down in an humble, and holy prosternation?
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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Henriette de Lenoncourt, my Henriette, whose life I longed to garland, was praying earnestly; faith gave to her figure an abandonment, a prosternation, the attitude of some religious statue, which moved me to the soul.
The Lily of the Valley Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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