Definition of "genuflections" [genuflections]

• Plural form of genuflection. (noun)

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• "The first words are repeated three times and three genuflections are made while the celebrant scatters leaves of blessed olive ..."
• "If the "P word" were stripped from its title page and this budget was given a dummy name like the "American Business and Stability Council Plan For Economic Growth", it would poll like gangbusters and be met with the appropriate journalistic genuflections."
• "Where is the strategy to elude, once and for all, the unending brinksmanship, the destructive bargains, the grim genuflections to what we now uneasily refer to as compromise?"