Definition of "genuflection" [gen•u•flec•tion]

• The act of genuflecting (noun)

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• "Care should be taken to instruct the faithful that genuflection is the appropriate sign of adoration in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, “whether reserved in the tabernacle or exposed for public adoration.”"
• "A bend of the body and a genuflection were the appropriate answer of the Ethiopian to these observations."
• ""Kevin Rudd is not an old-style lefty ... but the Labor Party is full of people who are, and I guess this is the kind of genuflection to political correctness that these guys feel they have to make," he told the Adelaide Advertiser."