deprostrate
English
Adjective
deprostrate (comparative more deprostrate, superlative most deprostrate)
- (Early Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
- 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, over, and after death, stanza 43, page 13:
- How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?
- 1620 September 10, George Langford, Manassehs Miracvlovs Metamorphosis […], published 1621, page 21:
- 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 […]
- c. 1621, Thomas Robinson, edited by H. Oskar Sommer, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene, published 1899, stanza 10, page 12:
- The nations came to her deprostrate bed
References
- “deprostrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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