genuflexion

1 At least it was so with Brother Martin; until at last, omitting a prostration or a genuflexion would weigh on his conscience like a crime.

2 These slight faux-pas aside, he reels off his office conscientiously enough, without fluffing a line or missing a genuflexion.

3 The rite consists of certain forms and passages to be repeated with prescribed series of prostrations and genuflexions.

4 He would, in the moment of such emotional genuflexions, have dissented with cynical bitterness from the poetic dictum that it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

5 The Keeper of the Seals then performed his genuflexions to the throne, and mumbled out, in a very ungraceful manner, a speech of considerable length, which nobody pretends to judge of, because nobody heard it.

6 The chamberlain bowed his assent with three low genuflexions.

7 This ridiculous genuflexion and mummery you may see repeated every morning in a Mexican “iglesia,” long before the hour of breakfast.

8 I regret my inability to express in more elegant phrase, that peculiar species of genuflexion, which may be described as the dropping down from the kneeling attitude to one a degree lower.

9 As you approach," he said in a low tone, "you will make three genuflexions—one at the door, another midway across the floor, the third at the Holy Father's feet.

10 I'm High and you're Broad, and there was a serious question about candles and a genuflexion, and so we decided on the registry office, which, after all, is much cheaper.

11 Prayer is not always a genuflexion and an address.

12 The second Council of Nice decided that this worship should consist of kisses and genuflexions, as well as of burning incense and wax candles before them.

13 There was much that recalled the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church,—processions, genuflexions, chanting, burning of incense, lighting of candles, tinkling of bells,—all centring round a great figure of Sakyamuni.

14 The typical "subject," hat-in-hand to his sovereign and his nobleman, is a less shameful figure than the "citizen" executing his genuflexion before the public of which he is himself a part.

15 No doubt many of these silly creatures really believe that the act is pleasing to God; that these genuflexions and orisons, mechanically repeated, will give them grace in His eyes.

16 The genuflexions of drunken sailors were seldom in honour of St. Joseph; and the ribald humours of visiting mariners profaned for a season the quiet rock of Quebec.

17 To which the witty canon replied: "Puseyism, sir, is inflexion and genuflexion; posture and imposture; bowing to the east, and curtseying to the west."

18 "I'll bathe myself with incense, spikenard and myrrh, With genuflexions, delicate viandes and wine, To see, in jest, if from a heart, that loves me dear, I cannot filch away the hommages divine."

19 Suddenly the priest ceased his genuflexions, there was a gleam of steel among his rags, then something bright flashed in the air.

20 Some know the Moslem form of worship with its prostrations and genuflexions.

1 卑躬屈膝

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2 跪拜

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