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genuflect (verb):
1a: to bend the knee
b: to touch the knee to the floor or ground especially in worship
2: to be humbly obedient or respectful
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Genuflect comes from the Late Latin word genuflectere, formed from the noun genu (“knee”) and the verb flectere (“to bend”). Flectere appears in the etymologies of a number of more common verbs, such as reflect (“to bend or throw back light”) and deflect (“to turn aside”). By comparison genu has seen little use in English, but it did give us geniculate, a word used in scientific contexts to mean “bent abruptly at an angle like a bent knee.” Despite the resemblance, words such as genius and genuine are not related to genuflect; instead, they are related (genius directly, and genuine indirectly) to the Latin verb gignere, meaning “to beget.”
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