prostration
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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
One newspaper covering a local 1831 Anti-Masonic convention highlighted the now increasingly popular view “that Antimasonry had other and higher objects in view than the prostration of the Masonic fraternity.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2015
Walitha'walitha is closely associated with funeral rituals, which can include other Islamic elements like facing west during prayers - roughly the direction of Mecca - and ritual prostration reminiscent of the Muslim sujood.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2014
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
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