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n. - The act of bending the knees in worship or reverence.

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  • Jacqui Smith: unconvicted dopehead over-promoted to the Home Office plans doomed genuflexion to the
  • Chia Jung, upon hearing this, forthwith, with giggles and smiles, made, near the edge of the couch, a sort of genuflexion.
  • We could even look at the removal of the most important priestly genuflexion in the entire Mass: the one between Consecration and Elevation.
  • The services had been going on all day-processional, hymns, prayers and more prayers, sacrifice, genuflexion, chanting, endless monotony of colorful ritual.
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