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genuflection
[ jen-yoo-flek-shuhn ]
noun
- an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of genuflection1
Example Sentences
The pessimists fear he might abandon even the hollow genuflection that the US still makes to the idea of a creating an independent Palestine alongside Israel – the so-called two state solution.
Or is something else happening; is the press manifesting an unadmitted genuflection to raw power, exercised arbitrarily, out of calculated self-preservation?
At earlier hearings, university presidents opted for strategies of conciliatory genuflection or drab, lawyerly answers.
“It’s only a movie, and … a much less impressive one than all the accompanying genuflection would have you believe.”
Still, they’ve all grown too used to each other to engage in much genuflection: When you treat an awards campaign like a full-time job, the other contenders might as well be your co-workers.
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