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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.
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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.â€
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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