genuflection

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

genuflection
    n 1: the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence [syn:
         {genuflection}, {genuflexion}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

genuflection \gen`u*flec"tion\, genuflexion \gen`u*flex"ion\, n.
   [F. g['e]nuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee +
   flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See {Knee},
   {Flexible}.]
   The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or
   reverence. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "genuflection":
      bend, bending the knee, bob, bow, bowing and scraping, crouch,
      curtsy, dipping the colors, duck, homage, inclination, kneeling,
      kowtow, making a leg, nod, obeisance, obsequiousness,
      presenting arms, prostration, reverence, salaam, salutation,
      salute, scrape, servility, squat, standing at attention, stoop,
      submission, submissiveness, supination

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