Genuflect vs Prostrate - What's the difference?
genuflect | prostrate |
To bend the knee, as in servitude or worship
To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.
Bow your head with great respect and genuflect', '''genuflect''', ' genuflect . Lying flat, facedown.
* Milton
* 1945 , :
Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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As verbs the difference between genuflect and prostrate
is that genuflect is to bend the knee, as in servitude or worship while prostrate is (to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.As an adjective prostrate is
lying flat, facedown.genuflect
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(en verb)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 .
prostrate
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Adjective
(-)- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.