The knight should genuflect under the king's knife to receive the sir status.
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Genuflect
//ˈd͡ʒɛn.jʊ.flɛkt//
Synonyms for "genuflect" (37 found)
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Related words (18)
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49 translations across 25 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bie në gjunjë verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Bulgarian
1 entries- коленича verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Catalan
1 entries- agenollar-se verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 下跪 verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- 跪 verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Danish
1 entries- bøje knæ verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Esperanto
1 entries- genufleksi verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Finnish
2 entries- kyyristellä verb (to behave in a servile manner)
- polvistua verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
French
4 entries- faire une génuflexion verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- faire une génuflexion verb (to behave in a servile manner)
- génuflexer verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- génuflexionner verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Galician
2 entries- dobregar o xeonllo verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- fincar o xeonllo verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Georgian
4 entries- დაჩოქება verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- დაჩოქება verb (to behave in a servile manner)
- მუხლის მოდრეკა verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- მუხლის მოდრეკა verb (to behave in a servile manner)
German
1 entries- niederknien verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Greek
1 entries- προσκυνώ verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Hebrew
1 entries- כָּרַע בֶּרֶךְ verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Icelandic
4 entries- falla á kné verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- gera knéfall verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- knékrjúpa verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- koma fyrir kné verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Italian
3 entries- essere genuflesso verb (to behave in a servile manner)
- genuflettere verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- genuflettersi verb (to behave in a servile manner)
Japanese
1 entries- 跪く verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Latin
1 entries- genuflecto verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Persian
1 entries- زانو خم کردن verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Polish
1 entries- klękać verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Portuguese
1 entries- genuflectir verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Russian
4 entries- преклони́ть коле́на/коле́ни verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- преклоня́ть коле́на/коле́ни verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- пресмыка́ться verb (to behave in a servile manner)
- соверша́ть коленопреклоне́ние verb (to behave in a servile manner)
Spanish
4 entries- arrodillarse verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- doblar la rodilla verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- genuflexionar verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- ponerse genuflexo verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Swedish
2 entries- knäböja verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
- knäfalla verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Tagalog
1 entries- yumukdo verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Turkish
1 entries- diz çökmek verb (to bend the knee, as in servitude, homage, or worship)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
At high Mass the deacon and subdeacon stand on either side, genuflect too, and answer.
Source: wiktionary
First you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries, / Bow your head with great respect, and / genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.
Source: wiktionary
She took the holy water on her fingertips and made the sign of the cross, fleetingly touched her wet fingertips to her parched lips. Candles flickered redly before the saints, the Christ on his cross. Kay genuflected before entering her row and then knelt on the hard wooden rail of the pew to wait for her call to Communion.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.