Usually means: Kneeling in respect or worship.
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  1. genuflection: Merriam-Webster
  2. genuflection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. genuflection: Collins English Dictionary
  4. genuflection: Vocabulary.com
  5. genuflection: Wordnik
  6. genuflection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. genuflection: Wiktionary
  8. genuflection: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Genuflection, genuflection: Dictionary.com
  10. genuflection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. genuflection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Genuflection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Genuflection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. genuflection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. genuflection: Rhymezone
  16. Genuflection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. genuflection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. genuflection: FreeDictionary.org
  19. genuflection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. genuflection: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. genuflection: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (genuflection)

▸ noun:  the act of genuflecting

Similar:
genuflexion, kneeling, reverence, knee, flexure, prostration, flexion, nodding, declination, gest, more...

Opposite:
standing, upright, erect

Types:
double, simple, triple, more...

Adjectives:
double, low, deep, simple, slight, usual, long, first, final, profound, proper


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Similar:
genuflexion, kneeling, reverence, knee, flexure, prostration, flexion, nodding, declination, gest, more...

Opposite:
standing, upright, erect

Types:
double, simple, triple, more...

Adjectives:
double, low, deep, simple, slight, usual, long, first, final, profound, proper



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