Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

genuflection

genuflection , noun

[French génuflexion, from Late Latin genuflexio, from Latin genu knee + flexio a bending, from flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee, Flexible.]

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or reverence. — Bp. Stillingfleet

Also: genuflexion