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- verb Present participle of
genuflect .
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Examples
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The procession goes forward to the altar, and the deacon sings “Lumen Christi”, higher still, again genuflecting and raising the reed, and all answer once again “Deo gratias.”
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Some examples are: genuflecting is a gesture of adoration to Our Lord substantially present in the Holy Eucharist; red vestments signify martyrdom; and the Sign of the Cross signifies and reaffirms the mysteries of the Holy Trinity and our salvation that comes through the Cross.
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It's just fun to watch someone like the so-called "straight-talker" (no pun intended) John McCain genuflecting to the Prophet from Lynchburg.
April 2006 2006
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Does anyone else recall their genuflecting attitude towards the unions in the 70s and the Soviets during the Cold War.
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Chinese tourists "genuflecting" before St Peter's altar...interesting.
"Americans do not bow to royalty. In my view, when the royal is the ruling tyrant of a despotic regime, the wrong is compounded." Ann Althouse 2009
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Our diplomats behave more like a client power genuflecting before the might of the imperial master than the dominant nation that the U.S. is supposed to be.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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Our diplomats behave more like a client power genuflecting before the might of the imperial master than the dominant nation that the U.S. is supposed to be.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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Our diplomats behave more like a client power genuflecting before the might of the imperial master than the dominant nation that the U.S. is supposed to be.
Robert Kuttner: Trade War Is Here -- and We've Disarmed Robert Kuttner 2010
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The Holy Father and the ministers genuflecting before the Lord in the tabernacle before leaving the chapel - a sight one doesn't see too often, since the Pope does not normally celebrate at altars where the Blessed Sacrament is present:
Vespers for the Inauguration of the Newly Restored Pauline Chapel 2009
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As at the Offertory of Mass, the thurifer comes to the priest, who imposes incense without blessing it, and, accompanied in the usual way by the deacon and subdeacon, incenses the Host and chalice, Cross and altar as at a Solemn Mass, genuflecting whenever he passes before the Sacrament.
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