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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence;
[syn: genuflection, genuflexion]


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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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