prostration

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying face-down), as a sign of humility.
2. (countable, uncountable) A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests, in which the ordinand lies prostrate in a gesture of submission to the will of God.
3. (countable, uncountable) The state of lying face down (prone).
4. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.
5. (countable, uncountable) A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.

Concepts

prostration

faiblesse

prosternation

affaiblissement

Synonymes

exhaustion

collapse

obeisance

humiliation

weakness

languor

worship

lassitude

submission

depression

bow

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abasement

debility

mortification

nervelessness

pilgrimage

sag

slump

subsidence

surrender

throw-in

tiredness

tonelessness

veneration

weariness

decadency

lie flat

fatigue

reverential salutation

falling at one’s feet

abjection

adoration

adulation

breakdown

decadence

dejection

depletion

downfall

frazzle

homage

laxity

listlessness

Traductions

postración

prostració

prostrazione

Niederwerfung

Kniefall

prostração

εξάντληση

uitputting

col·lapse

Kollaps

سجد

Erschöpfung

Schwäche

ατονία

كب

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɹɒsˈtɹeɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Latin prōstrātiō, from prōstrātus, past participle of prōsternō.