Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deprostrate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-pros-trate
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Fully prostrate; humble; low.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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"

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de-
Suffix: prostrate

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more deprostrate (comparative) most deprostrate (superlative)

Questions

What does deprostrate mean?: Fully prostrate; humble; low.
Where does deprostrate come from?: From de- + prostrate, with de- as an intensifier.

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