genuflect
- v bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image
- v bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
- Given Gibson's fervent Christianity, you might have expected JP to run up and genuflect.
- As a Catholic, I don't expect atheists to genuflect before an altar.
- Rollergirl (Heather Graham, before whose beauty all gentlemen genuflect) performs sex on skates.