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prostrations
n. (plural of prostration English)
Usage examples of "prostrations".
And in the hour of the evening prayer, while we all performed the prostrations toward Mecca, two of the Sultan's mamluks, the most trusted of his servants, whom he had loved like sons, rose up and killed him.
Otherwise they were kept on the household altar or they could be set up as independent shrines on a rock or raised piece of ground, where they were worshipped with prostrations and the ancient and orthodox rite of clockwise circumambulation.
He had grown old, devoured by fasts, prostrations and great hopes, and had no strength to run.
The ritual crawling and prostrations on the rough red pebbles laid into the rammed-earth floor could be ruinous to one's legs.