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countable and uncountable, plural genuflections
the act of genuflecting quotations examples
Those impious Pigs,Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugnThe settled Swellfoot system, or to makeIrreverent mockery of the genuflexionsInculcated by the arch-priest, have been whiptInto a loyal and an orthodox whine.
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts