What does deprostrate mean?
Deprostrate means (Early Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low..
Deprostrate
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
(Early Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low..
Example Sentences
How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?
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 […]
The nations came to her deprostrate bed
Synonyms for deprostrate
Antonyms for deprostrate
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Word Forms
- more deprostrate
- most deprostrate
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How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?
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