bending of the knee
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They must also keep one leg straight until it passes their body, meaning no bending of the knee.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2021
Knee flexion is the bending of the knee to bring the foot toward the posterior thigh, and extension is the straightening of the knee.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
"After all, what is a bending of the knee if it can help relations between two countries?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Fanatical shutting of the eyes and bending of the knee no longer suffice.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
What is left but bending of the knee and boundless confidence?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
