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- noun Alternative spelling of
genuflection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence
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Examples
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NBC, CBS et al have been in the genuflexion mode since he began to run for the office.
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Jacqui Smith: unconvicted dopehead over-promoted to the Home Office plans doomed genuflexion to the
Archive 2008-06-22 2008
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Jacqui Smith: unconvicted dopehead over-promoted to the Home Office plans doomed genuflexion to the
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We could even look at the removal of the most important priestly genuflexion in the entire Mass: the one between Consecration and Elevation.
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A Freemason would remove that because it points to the fact that our Lord is present as the Host, whereas a postponement of the first genuflexion to after the Elevation suggests that the people come first: Christ is primarly present in them.
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The master — to use the Italian phrase for persons of this description — approached the upper end of the room with a genuflexion like that of a Catholic to the crucifix, and at the same time crossed himself.
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The master — to use the Italian phrase for persons of this description — approached the upper end of the room with a genuflexion like that of a Catholic to the crucifix, and at the same time crossed himself.
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When a parson takes his lay friend over his church on a week day, how much less of the spirit of genuflexion and head-uncovering the clergyman will display to the layman!
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This was no mere genuflexion to a shrine of taste and immorality, but the prosecution of his own legitimate affairs.
In Chancery 2004
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And he went into the church making a genuflexion as soon as he reached the door.
Madame Bovary 2003
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