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Knelt vs Kneeling - What's the difference?

knelt | kneeling |

As verbs the difference between knelt and kneeling

is that knelt is past tense of kneel while kneeling is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun kneeling is

the act by which someone kneels.

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

    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