Deprostrate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Deprostrate is an adjective meaning (Early Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
Meaning
(Early Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
Example Sentences
The nations came to her deprostrate bed
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 […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prostrate, abased, humiliative, depriment, debased, derogate.
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