kneeling
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
kneeling
- present participle and gerund of kneel
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English knelinge, kneweling, kneolunge, equivalent to kneel + -ing.
Noun edit
kneeling (plural kneelings)
- The act by which someone kneels.
- 2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The queer God, page 11:
- A whole symbolic sexual order is obviously manifested in kneelings as positions of subordination […]