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kneeling

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kneel  (nl)
intr.v. knelt (nlt) or kneeled, kneel·ing, kneels
To go down or rest on one or both knees.
[Middle English knelen, from Old English cnowlian; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.kneelingkneeling - supporting yourself on your knees
kneel
movement, motility, motion, move - a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
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"All right," replied Ojo, and kneeling down he felt in the well with his hand and found that it contained a quantity of water.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big, brutal fellow who was standing in the middle of the room picked up a slipper, and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a snivelling young shaver.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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