prosternation
English edit
Etymology edit
French. See prostration.
Noun edit
prosternation (plural prosternations)
- (obsolete) dejection; depression
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
- a Prosternation of Spirit
References edit
“prosternation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
prosternation f (plural prosternations)
Further reading edit
- “prosternation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.