Meaning of deprostrate | Babel Free

Definitions

Fully prostrate; humble; low.

Early, Modern, obsolete, poetic, rare

Examples

“How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?”

“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 […]”

“The nations came to her deprostrate bed”

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