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Genuflection

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of genuflecting. countable, uncountable

    "Those impious Pigs, Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn The settled Swellfoot system, or to make Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt Into a loyal and an orthodox whine."

  2. 2
    the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genuflexio, though with standardized spelling. By surface analysis, genuflect (“to bend the knee”) + -ion (Latinate abstract-noun suffix).

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