genuflection
noun
an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
genuflexion
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a variation of
genuflection.
Example Sentences
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They at length exhorted him, in making a devout genuflexion, to forget his ancient food, for the purpose of repeating without ceasing, Amen, Amen.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
At least it was so with Brother Martin; until at last, omitting a prostration or a genuflexion would weigh on his conscience like a crime.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
The typical "subject," hat-in-hand to his sovereign and his nobleman, is a less shameful figure than the "citizen" executing his genuflexion before the public of which he is himself a part.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
He, too, felt a spirit of genuflexion and wanted to speak to God personally; to appeal to Him by a private petition as to a king whose ministers denied mercy.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
Her fingers dipped in holy water and a genuflexion duly made, she would glide over the flags, between the rows of chairs, as softly as a cat steals across a carpeted floor.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Jules de Goncourt
