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English
Etymology
French. See prostration.
Noun
prosternation (plural prosternations)
- (obsolete) dejection; depression
- Synonyms: melancholy, misery; see also Thesaurus:sadness
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R Royston , and B Took, , →OCLC:a Prosternation of Spirit
References
“prosternation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
prosternation f (plural prosternations)
- prostration
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