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deprostrate en · ADJ

Etymology

From de- + prostrate, with de- as an intensifier.

Meanings

1. (Early, Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
   • How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile? 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, over, and after death, stanza 43, page 13:
   • The nations came to her deprostrate bed c. 1621, Thomas Robinson, edited by H. Oskar Sommer, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene, published 1899, stanza 10, page 12:
   • Hitherto you haue seene Manasses, not with Lots wife, trãsform’d into a pillar of Salt, but with the Poets Niobe, into a weeping and waimenting stone: now shall you see him with an humble and lowly heart, raising his ruined soule, deprest with sinne, deprostrate for sinne; lifting vp his bleared eyes, streaming with teares, swelling for sorrow […] 1620 September 10, George Langford, Manassehs Miracvlovs Metamorphosis […], published 1621, page 21:

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