genuflection

genuflection

English

Alternative forms

• genuflexion (British)

Noun

genuflection (countable and uncountable, plural genuflections)

1. the act of genuflecting
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Those impious Pigs,
     Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn
     The settled Swellfoot system, or to make
     Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions
     Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt
     Into a loyal and an orthodox whine.

Translations

the act of genuflecting, in the sense of bowing down

Belarusian: кле́нчанне n (kljénčannje) Bulgarian: колени́чене n (koleníčene) Dutch: kniebuiging (nl) f Finnish: polvistuminen (fi) French: génuflexion (fr) f German: Niederknien n, Kniebeuge (de) f, Kniefall (de) m Greek: γονυκλισία (el) f (gonyklisía) Icelandic: knébeyging f, knéfall f Irish: umhlú m Italian: genuflessione (it) f Polish: klękanie (pl) n, uklęknięcie (pl) n Portuguese: genuflexão (pt) f Romanian: genuflexiune (ro) f, genuflexare f Russian: коленопреклоне́ние (ru) n (kolenopreklonénije) Spanish: genuflexión (es) f Ukrainian: колінопреклоні́ння n (kolinopreklonínnja)