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What does genuflect mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To bend the knee, as in servitude or worship
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.
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If we continue to genuflect to decentralization as a fundamental criterion for running elections, we make it much harder for such reform efforts to achieve true democracy.
Once you reach the Center of Altar, take Priest's biretta, genuflect as the Priest genuflects.
They, of all people, will have creaky joints and damaged knees as they genuflect to the tax-cutting elite in this country.
The thurifers stand, genuflect, and carry the thurible and incense into the sacristy.
If I sometimes missed the point of some of these interpretive discoveries along the way, I could only genuflect at Lang's technical ability to make them manifest.
If the SECOND ACOLYTE has assisted on the predella, he will descend in plano, genuflect, and return to his place.

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