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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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Etymology of 'Beneath'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beneath" Quotes from Famous Books

... to leap beneath him, a maddened, crazed thing, tired of the hills, tired of the turmoil and strain of hours of fighting, racing with all the speed that gravity could thrust upon it for the bottom of the Pass. The brakes were gone, the emergency had not even lasted through the first hill. Barry Houston was now ...

— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... the tunnel at the other end he caught a glimpse of the distant castle-keep, and the well-remembered walls beneath it. The experience so far transcended the intensity of what is called mournful pleasure as to make him wonder how he could have miscalculated himself to the extent of supposing that he might pass ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... home, to make happy the lives of her husband and the dear ones committed to her trust, is the honored task which it is the wife's province to perform. All praise be to her who so rules and governs in that kingdom, that those reared beneath her roof "shall rise up ...

— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young

... hereafter, records and even tradition are silent upon his walk and conversation; and though his signature has been several times disinterred, his whole correspondence, if he ever wrote a letter, has sunk like lead beneath the dark waters of oblivion; indeed, even the single signature as yet discovered unconnected with business documents—namely, the 'Willme Shakspere' on the volume of Montaigne—is not preceded by any remark whatever, by any sentence that might give a faint echo of Hamlet. Now ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 - Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 • Various

... triumphant advance of an inferior foe, like autumn stubble before a hurricane of fire. For aught I know, the next flash of electric fire that shimmers along the ocean cable may tell us that Paris, with every fibre quivering with the agony of impotent despair, writhes beneath the conquering heel of her loathed invader. Ere another moon shall wax and wane the brightest star in the galaxy of nations may fall from the zenith of her glory never to rise again. Ere the modest violets of early ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various

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