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Genuflect

verb

(past & past part. genuflected; pres. part. genuflecting)

Bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image.

Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner. Synonyms: kowtow, scrape.

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... two by two, until they reach the chancel, where they divide on the right and on the left, allowing the bridesmaids to pass before them, standing in a semicircle around the altar rails. If it is a Roman Catholic wedding they genuflect as they reach the chancel. They file down the aisle in the same order, heading the bridal procession. At the carriage way they assist the bridesmaids in their carriages, and by previous arrangement they are allotted to certain carriages ...

— The Complete Bachelor - Manners for Men • Walter Germain

... Picture God as saying to you—He Who re-created you and adopted you: "My son, why is it that day by day you rise and pray, and genuflect, and even strike the ground with your forehead, nay, sometimes even shed tears, while you say to Me: 'My Father, my God! give me wealth!' If I were to give it to you, you would think yourself of ...

— On Prayer and The Contemplative Life • St. Thomas Aquinas