Genuflection [noun]
Definition of Genuflection:
bow
Synonyms of Genuflection:
● Bending
● Kowtow
● Nod
● Arch
● Curve
● Turn
● Arc
● Bend
● Salaam
● Bob
● Angle
● Curtsy
● Round
● Turning
● Flection
● Flexure
Sentence/Example of 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.
Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes away the muscles which walk and the will which advances.
Ixtlilxochitli made a second genuflection, and resumed his way.
"It is not that, general," replied Marcel, making a most graceful genuflection.
Again the ten boys repeated their song and dance and their castanets, and with a rapid genuflection disappeared.
The porter greeted each sovereign with a genuflection, the lowest being the twelfth.