prosternation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French. See prostration.
Noun[edit]
prosternation (plural prosternations)
- (obsolete) dejection; depression
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
- a Prosternation of Spirit
References[edit]
“prosternation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prosternation f (plural prosternations)
Further reading[edit]
- “prosternation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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