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genuflection

/jen-yoo-flek-shuhn/US // ˌdʒɛn yʊˈflɛk ʃən //

跪拜,跪拜礼,跪求,打坐

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.

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Examples

  • Coates chronicles and pays his respects to this kind of proposal but seems to feel that they would be mere genuflection.

  • A bend of the body and a genuflection were the appropriate answer of the Ethiopian to these observations.

  • Whereupon the pony went down on its knees in the sawdust in a genuflection to the man with the whip.

  • The donkey drivers performed the same genuflection as the ox-herds, and the scribes noted also the exact number of the animals.

  • The High Priestess rose from her genuflection and Forrester followed suit.

  • I left the temple without genuflection and walked briskly toward the outlying village of Ranbajpur.