Sentence example with the word 'genuflection'

genuflection

bend, bow, curtsy, homage, kowtow, obeisance, prostration, salutation, servility, stoop, supination

Definition n. the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence

Last update: June 22, 2015


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A bend of the body and a genuflection were the appropriate answer of the Ethiopian to these observations.   [Please select]

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Again a joyful glance--again a genuflection--but, as he arose, the King laid his hand heavily on his shoulder, and proceeded with stern gravity thus: "Let me in one thing warn you, my sable envoy."   [Please select]

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Mechanically she dipped her fingers into the holy water, she made her genuflection to the altar, and knelt down in one of the back rows.   [Please select]

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Because the odour inhaled corresponded to other odours inhaled of other ungual fragments, picked and lacerated by Master Bloom, pupil of Mrs Ellis's juvenile school, patiently each night in the act of brief genuflection and nocturnal prayer and ambitious meditation.   [Please select]

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Halting, he bowed with an exaggerated genuflection and flourish of his free hand to Miss Madden, the while he flashed at her a glance at once of challenge and of deprecation.   [Please select]

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I was all of a tremble when we gathered two on this side and two on that, with genuflection's, in the middle of the sanctuary, to intone the Domine, salvum fac regern at the end of mass.   [Please select]

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