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genuflect, genuflecting
1. To bend the right knee to the floor and rise again as a gesture of religious respect; especially in a Roman Catholic or Anglican church.BR> 2. To bend the knees and bow in a servile manner or to express a servile attitude.
3. To be servilely respectful or deferential; to grovel.
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Genuflection
(from Late Latin, 1526, genuflectionem (genuflexio), from stem of genuflectere "genuflect", from Latin genu, "knee" + flectere< "to bend")