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- noun Plural form of
genuflection .
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Examples
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If the "P word" were stripped from its title page and this budget was given a dummy name like the "American Business and Stability Council Plan For Economic Growth", it would poll like gangbusters and be met with the appropriate journalistic genuflections.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Wanted: An Opposition Party, Not a Coalition RJ 2011
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Where is the strategy to elude, once and for all, the unending brinksmanship, the destructive bargains, the grim genuflections to what we now uneasily refer to as compromise?
Daniel Cluchey: Unsolicited New Year's Resolutions Daniel Cluchey 2011
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If the "P word" were stripped from its title page and this budget was given a dummy name like the "American Business and Stability Council Plan For Economic Growth", it would poll like gangbusters and be met with the appropriate journalistic genuflections.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Wanted: An Opposition Party, Not a Coalition RJ 2011
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The three “stations” no longer consist of the double genuflection, i.e. kneeling and making a profound bow, but rather three simple genuflections. (“simplici genuflectione ter repetita”.)
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The Ambassador Plenipotentiary of, uh, Myself, salutes the Elders and renders unto them many genuflections.
Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009
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The first words are repeated three times and three genuflections are made while the celebrant scatters leaves of blessed olive ...
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If the "P word" were stripped from its title page and this budget was given a dummy name like the "American Business and Stability Council Plan For Economic Growth", it would poll like gangbusters and be met with the appropriate journalistic genuflections.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Wanted: An Opposition Party, Not a Coalition RJ 2011
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(It should be noted that in the Byzantine Rite, the double genuflections and adoration of the Cross are done in a very similar way during the ceremonies of Good Friday.)
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Soothingly titled Sentinel of Peace, the widely disseminated report, while making all the necessary genuflections to the party and to Stalin, emphasized the importance of training, education, and better living conditions; it also clearly laid out the need for even greater sums of money to be devoted to military needs.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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After a while, you'll either tire of or be brainwashed by the marathon of Squeeze-Elvis Costello-XTC-Kinks-Beatles inflections and genuflections that back up the brilliance, but you'll have to decide for yourself if Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead actually changes your life or kills you hopefully, in a good way.
Mike Ragogna: New Tunes On Monday : Little Walter, Prince, James Taylor, John Wesley Harding, Paul Carrack, and Matthew Barber Mike Ragogna 2010
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