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preposition

Beneath prep.

Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." "Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies."

Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens. "Our country sinks beneath the yoke."

Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. "He will do nothing that is beneath his high station."

adverb

Beneath adv.

In a lower place; underneath. "The earth you take from beneath will be barren."

Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beneath" Quotes from Famous Books

... beneath all these diplomatic subterfuges was of course that Russia wanted Constantinople, and England would at any cost prevent her getting it. The keys to the East must, in any event, not belong to Russia, her ...

— The Evolution of an Empire • Mary Parmele

... surround a vein of precious metal, so through Nelson's moral nature there ran an opulent lode of character, unimpaired in its priceless worth by adjacent frailties which, in the majority of mankind, are present without any precious stuff beneath them. It is with minds prepared to see this that we ...

— Sea-Power and Other Studies • Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge

... is not my wife; She is our guest,—our honor'd guest, my mother)— To the poor chamber, where the sleep of virtue, Never, beneath my father's honest roof, Ev'n villains dared to mar! Now, lady, now, I think thou wilt believe me. ...

— The Lady of Lyons - or Love and Pride • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... so beautiful and noble that to surround its ending with the remembrance of mere mortal ailment has in it something of coarseness. But it was needful to show in what way this great spirit bowed beneath the weight of its own sympathy with a national woe. Even when Dr. Holmes saw him in Boston, though "his aspect, medically considered, was very unfavorable," and though "he spoke as if his work were ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... that Portuguese Jew exiled in Holland; read his Ethic as a despairing elegiac poem, which in fact it is, and tell me if you do not hear, beneath the disemburdened and seemingly serene propositions more geometrico, the lugubrious echo of the prophetic psalms. It is not the philosophy of resignation but of despair. And when he wrote that the free man thinks of nothing less than ...

— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno

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