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deprostrate

deprostrate adjective: fully prostrate; humble; low.

Adjective

deprostrate (comparative more deprostrate, superlative most deprostrate)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare) Fully prostrate; humble; low.
    • How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, over, and after death, stanza 43, page 13
    • 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...1620 September 10, George Langford, Manassehs Miracvlovs Metamorphosis […], published 1621, page 21

Forms of deprostrate

comparativemore deprostrate
superlativemost deprostrate

Origin of deprostrate

From de- + prostrate, with de- as an intensifier.

Questions about deprostrate

What does deprostrate mean?
Deprostrate means fully prostrate; humble; low.
What part of speech is deprostrate?
Deprostrate is an adjective.

Words near deprostrate in the dictionary

  1. deproscribed
  2. deproscribes
  3. deproscribing
  4. deproscription
  5. deprostil
  6. deprostrate
  7. deprotamination
  8. deprotect
  9. deprotectant
  10. deprotectants
  11. deprotected

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