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genuflect

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Definition:
to bend at the knees, when in prayer or submission

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I glanced behind, to see one of the young monks whose name I didn’t know genuflecting near the rear entrance.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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And he went into the church making a genuflexion as soon as he reached the door.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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a garage said in its sleep— genuflection lubricity; and corrected itself to Gulflex Lubrication.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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