genuflect

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

PIE word *ǵónu From around 1620–1630 from Medieval Latin genūflectō (“to bend the knee”) equivalent to the Latin genū (“knee”) + flectō (“to bend”).

He didn't genuflect, and I glanced involuntarily at him. — Antony Gray,—Gardener, LM (Leslie Moore)
The peers do homage, one by one, approaching and genuflecting. — Ulysses, James Joyce
He had seen himself, a young and silentmannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly, ascending the altarsteps, incensing, genuflecting, accomplishing the vague acts of the priesthood which pleased him by reason of their semblance of reality and of their distance from it. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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