genuflect
verb (used without object)
to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
genuflects
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present tense formof genuflect (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
One thing even more awful, though, over time, is trying to share a life with someone who still genuflects to someone else.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
The woman who holds the head genuflects with her soaking parcel.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
By the cross the priest is reminded of the death of Our Lord; he genuflects as an act of humility, and he strikes his breast to show his own unworthiness.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead
