prostration

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Americans already know such intimate prostration in smaller everyday events: between loved ones in the moments before a major surgery, before a wedding, or after a graduation.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

With his thick beard, heavy-rimmed glasses and a prominent bruise on his forehead from prostration in prayer, he was notoriously prickly and pedantic.

From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2022

Most worshippers brought their own prayer rugs and clay tablets used during prostration, said the broadcast.

From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2021

“The Queen is suffering from great physical prostration, accompanied by symptoms which cause much anxiety,” announced Sir James Reid, Queen Victoria’s physician, two days before her death in 1901.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017

The first prostration, I prayed the Quran verse “Say He is God, the one and only”; the second prostration: “Say O you who are unbelievers, I worship not that which you worship. ...”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey