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Prostration

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Prostration 

an obsolete, vague medical concept denoting extreme exhaustion, debilitation, and a decline in mental activity. It appears with severe infectious diseases, poisonings, and extreme fatigue and after sudden nervous shocks.
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As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image.
Fables by Aesop View in context
It's all humbug, his talking about economy, when every one knows that business in America has completely recovered, that the prostration is all over, and that immense fortunes are being made.
A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context
Yes, there was a sort of refuge which always comes with the prostration of thought under an overpowering passion: it was that expectation of impossibilities, that belief in contradictory images, which is still distinct from madness, because it is capable of being dissipated by the external fact.
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