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

Even with the smartphone’s on-purpose designed-in distraction notification architecture, our prostration at their non-human feet is the real issue.

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2020

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