French-English translations for prostration

consternation
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prostrationWe know full well that the notion of collective guilt has led to universal conflagration and to the extermination and prostration of peoples. Nous savons pertinemment que la notion de culpabilité collective a conduit à une conflagration universelle et à l'extermination et la prostration de peuples. The ordination ceremony includes a variety of rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., the prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, and sign of peace. — [http://www.dor.org/vocations/faqs_ordination.htm Diocese of Rochester, NY]