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I regret my inability to express in more elegant phrase, that peculiar species of genuflexion, which may be described as the dropping down from the kneeling attitude to one a degree lower.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne

To which the latter dryly responded, "their genuflexion would not make him any less a king than he already was."

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Some of them bring their children, bedizened like dolls, and mimicking mamma's gestures and genuflexion in a manner more provoking to sadness than to satire.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

Christine hesitated, and then left the Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague without even a transient genuflexion.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold

"What's that meowlin?" asked Bruce the next morning, the moment he rose from the genuflexion of morning prayers.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George