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Genuflect vs Kneeling - What's the difference?

genuflect | kneeling |

As verbs the difference between genuflect and kneeling

is that genuflect is to bend the knee, as in servitude or worship while kneeling is .

As a noun kneeling is

the act by which someone kneels.

genuflect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To bend the knee, as in servitude or worship
  • To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.

    • Quotations

    * 1913 — (Adrian Fortescue), " *: At high Mass the deacon and subdeacon stand on either side, genuflect too, and answer. * 1965 — (Tom Lehrer), The Vatican Rag *: First you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries,
    Bow your head with great respect and genuflect', '''genuflect''', ' genuflect .

    Related terms

    * genuflection * genuflector

    kneeling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone kneels.
  • * 2003 , Marcella Althaus-Reid, The queer God (page 11)
    • A whole symbolic sexual order is obviously manifested in kneelings as positions of subordination