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genuflector

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gen⋅u⋅flect

  [jen-yoo-flekt]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
2. to express a servile attitude.
Origin:
1620–30; < ML genūflectere to bend the knee, equiv. to L genū-, s. of genu knee + flectere to bend

Related forms:
gen⋅u⋅flec⋅tor, noun
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