kneeling

Etymology 1

From kneel + -ing.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of kneel

Etymology 2

From Middle English knelinge, kneweling, kneolunge, equivalent to kneel + -ing.

noun

  1. The act by which someone kneels.
    A whole symbolic sexual order is obviously manifested in kneelings as positions of subordination[…] 2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The queer God, page 11

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