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Definition of Genuflecting
1. genuflect [v] - See also: genuflect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genuflecting
Literary usage of Genuflecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ceremonies of the Mass by William McGarvey, Charles Philip Augustus Burnett (1905)
"Otf Genuflecting IN THE CREED. We have been told that the custom of genuflecting
in the Nicene Creed at the words, "And was incarnate," etc., is Roman, ..."
2. Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Council of the Diocese of by Episcopal Church Diocese of Arkansas, Diocese of Arkansas, Episcopal Church (1899)
"Bowing the head at the Gloria Patria and genuflecting at the name of Jesus in
... Genuflecting or bowing towards the altar upon coming in and leaving the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... (genuflecting first, according to the usual rule) to the sedilia and sit.
Meanwhile the choir immediately continues: "Et in terra pax", and sings the ..."
4. The Secret History of the Oxford Movement by Walter Walsh (1899)
"Among the minor ones are bowing and genuflecting. ... And genuflecting, not to
the Altar, but to the ' Gift that is upon it;' to the God-Man, Christ Jesus, ..."
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