PROSTRATION

n. 1 genuflection or Brit also genuflexion, kowtowing, kowtow, kneeling, bowing, bow, salaaming, salaam, submission Prostration before a superior was a mark of honour 2 servility, veneration, worship, humiliation, respect, adulation, deference, obeisance, homage Their silence betokened the profound prostration they felt before her superior intellect 3 despair, misery, desolation, desperation, dejection, depression, despondency, wretchedness, unhappiness, grief, woe, woefulness Years of poverty created in him a spiritual prostration from which he never recovered 4 weariness, exhaustion, weakness, debility, feebleness, enervation, lassitude, paralysis, collapse, breakdown The diagnosis was nervous prostration and the treatment was bed rest for a week or more