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