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
He blesses himself, genuflects again, and goes back into the sacristy.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
According to Baldeschi, the veil is removed from the celebrant when he genuflects in the predella, after having given the benediction.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
