Crossword-Solution: PROSTRATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prostration | n. | The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. |
| Prostration | n. | The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. |
| Prostration | n. | The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. |
| Prostration | n. | A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PROSTRATION”
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| the act of assuming a prostrate position | 1 answer |
| the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body | 1 answer |
| Kneeling ___ | 6 answers |
| ABJECT SUBMISSION | 11 answers |
| Respects | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PROSTRATION (5)
Gabriel lately, for the first time since his prostration by misfortune, had been independent in thought and vigorous in action to a marked extent—conditions which, powerless without an opportunity as an opportunity without them is barren, would have given him a sure lift upwards when the favourable conjunction should have occurred.
More of that horrible pain in the early morning; followed, this time, by complete prostration, for some hours.
She would make a magnificent Herodias!” If Roderick had taken it ill (which was unlikely, for we know he thought Gloriani an ass, and expected little of his wisdom), he might have been soothed by the candid incense of Sam Singleton, who came and sat for an hour in a sort of mental prostration before both bust and artist.
She is a charming, kindly, cultivated gentlewoman, just out of a sanatorium after a year of nervous prostration.
Immediately afterwards, he collapsed with nervous prostration; his stomach “got out of whack,” and he all but died in a Sacramento boarding-house, obstinately refusing to have anything to do with doctors, whom he vituperated as a rabble of quacks, dosing himself with a patent medicine and stuffing himself almost to bursting with liver pills and dried prunes.
Quotes with PROSTRATION (3)
The first condition, then, of what is called a selfish love among men is lacking with God. He has no natural necessities, no passion, to compete with His wish for the beloved's welfare; or if there is in Him something which we have to imagine after the analogy of a passion, a want it is there by His own will and for our sakes. And the second condition is lacking too. The real interests of a child may differ from that which his father's affection instinctively demands, because…
Do we suppose that they can do Him any good or fear, like the chorus in MIlton, that human irreverence can bring about. His glory's diminution? A man can no more diminish God's glory be refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell. But God wills our good and our good is to love Him (with that responsive love proper to creatives) and to love Hi we must know Him: and if we know Him, we shall in fact fall on …
He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration.