Bent downward; curved or folded in a downward direction.
Past participle of 'downbend' or from 'down' plus 'bent' (curved); an adjective describing the state of something that has been bent downward.
Medieval descriptions of posture used words like 'downbent' to describe submission or grief—when people were sad, they literally bent down! This shows how physical position and emotion were inseparably linked in how people understood the world.
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