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Knelt vs Crouch - What's the difference?

knelt | crouch |

As verbs the difference between knelt and crouch

is that knelt is (kneel) while crouch is (obsolete) to sign with the cross; bless or crouch can be to bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

As a noun crouch is

(obsolete) a cross or crouch can be a bent or stooped position.

knelt

English

Verb

(head)
  • (kneel).
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt , and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

    Synonyms

    * kneeled

    crouch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crouche, cruche, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A cross.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To sign with the cross; bless.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) crouchen, crucchen, . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
  • We crouched behind the low wall until the squad of soldiers had passed by.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
  • Archer and Jacob jumped up from behind the mound where they had been crouching with the intention of springing upon their mother unexpectedly, and they all began to walk slowly home.
  • To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
  • * Wordsworth
  • a crouching purpose
  • * Shakespeare
  • Must I stand and crouch / Under your testy humour?
  • To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
  • Noun

    (es)
  • A bent or stooped position.
  • The cat waited in a crouch , hidden behind the hedge.
  • A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to crouch.