prosternation

noun

prosternation

noun

Etymology French. See prostration.

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Obsolete dejection; depression

a Prosternation of Spirit1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

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