genuflection
Noun
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Noun
genuflection
- the act of genuflecting
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- Those impious Pigs,
Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn
The settled Swellfoot system, or to make
Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions
Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt
Into a loyal and an orthodox whine.
- Those impious Pigs,
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- French: génuflexion
- German: Niederknien, Kniebeuge, Kniefall
- Italian: genuflessione
- Portuguese: genuflexão
- Spanish: genuflexión
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