Definitions for genuflection

genuflection gen·u·flec·tion

Spelling: [jen-yoo-flek-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌdʒɛn yʊˈflɛk ʃən/

Genuflection is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 813 anagrams from letters in genuflection (ceefgilnnotu).

Definitions for genuflection

noun

  1. an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.

Origin of genuflection

First recorded in 1520-30, genuflection is from the Medieval Latin word genūflexiōn- (stem of genūflexiō). See genuflect, -ion

Examples for genuflection

He grovelled again, and shuffled off, turning at every few steps to make a genuflection.

Ixtlilxochitli made a second genuflection, and resumed his way.

genuflection before the idol or before money wastes away the muscles which walk and the will which advances.

It would seem that such a genuflection must be, of necessity, ridiculous.

A bend of the body and a genuflection were the appropriate answer of the Ethiopian to these observations.

The High Priestess rose from her genuflection and Forrester followed suit.

Whereupon the pony went down on its knees in the sawdust in a genuflection to the man with the whip.

The porter greeted each sovereign with a genuflection, the lowest being the twelfth.

Word Value for genuflection
Scrable

18

Words with friends

24

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