Meanings of genuflexion in English

At length the Cardinal Secretary approached his Holiness, and said, with a deep genuflexion:

Nature-worship-or"aboriginal genuflexion," he calls it; Anglicanism, Methodism; he stands to engage them.

Nonetheless, there are a few tremendously hardy perennial plants that demand a bit of genuflexion.

And he went into the church making a genuflexion as soon as he reached the door.

Christine hesitated, and then left the Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague without even a transient genuflexion.

Each nun made a genuflexion as she passed; and to each, the Prioress slightly inclined her head.

Each time he passed before the tabernacle he made a genuflexion slantwise, which threw him all askew.

A lady's courtesy is a modified genuflexion.

No gentle genuflexion satisfied the tzar.

LUCIFER, with a genuflexion, mocking.

By their constantly practising genuflexion upon the bare ground, their knees become in time almost as hard as their heels.

From time to time at the upper end a sacristan passed, making the oblique genuflexion of devout persons in a hurry.

This ridiculous genuflexion and mummery you may see repeated every morning in a Mexican "iglesia," long before the hour of breakfast.

It was thrown back to scowl upon this visitor with an expectant arrogance that made Andre-Louis wonder almost was a genuflexion awaited from him.

The major was tall, but whenever he made that wonderful, archaic genuflexion he called a bow, the corners of his frock coat swept the floor.

Docre made the genuflexions, the full-or half-length inclinations specified by the ritual.