Crossword-Solution: GENUFLECT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Genuflect | v. i. | To bend the knee, as in worship. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “GENUFLECT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| perform ritual | 1 answer |
| bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | 1 answer |
| bend the knee as a sign of reverence or deference | 1 answer |
| Word from Tom Lehrer's "Vatican Rag" | 1 answer |
| Kneel in church | 1 answer |
| Show reverence by bending the knee | 1 answer |
| Express reverence, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Show servility | 2 answers |
| BEND on knee | 2 answers |
| Show reverence, in a way | 3 answers |
| BEND in reverence | 3 answers |
| BEND at knee | 3 answers |
| Show respect | 5 answers |
| BEND down | 7 answers |
| Curtsy. | 10 answers |
| bend the knee | 11 answers |
| Stoop | 19 answers |
| Kneel | 25 answers |
| flex | 30 answers |
| Kowtow | 44 answers |
| Salute | 56 answers |
| Scrape | 59 answers |
| Bow | 60 answers |
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Sentences with GENUFLECT (5)
Chant, priests, Whine, shuffle, genuflect, He will always be as rigid as he is now Until he crumbles away in a dust heap.
The two Simms children (little girls) had been taught all the social graces of the day—to pose, smirk, genuflect, and the like, to the immense delight of their elders.
She courtesied low to the Duchessa, lower still to the priest--in fact, Peter was n't sure that she did n't genuflect before him, while he made a rapid movement with his hand over her head: the Sign of the Cross, perhaps.
Fountain did not sign herself with holy water, and did not genuflect in passing the altar, and they looked at her with a stealthy surprise.
When the deacon arrives near the door of the _cancellata_, one of the three candles is lighted, and all genuflect, except the subdeacon: the deacon then sings, _Lumen Christi_, the light of Christ, and the choir answers, Thanks be to God.
Quotes with GENUFLECT (3)
Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries’ worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches.
You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.
I wanted to think of what could not be thought except in intersections; I wanted to satiate my fiendishness in a neutering gnosis. I wanted to see the first chimp paint it’s own likeness in a limbo state of gravitating iconostasis, flanked by altar candles and decked in a dark green Zuchetto upon which stars would genuflect in a prism without manacles, unrivaled by the boring, mundane phenomenon of space's black canopy loved by the plebeians.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Custom, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2022).