KNEELING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kneeling mean? 

• KNEELING (noun)
  The noun KNEELING has 1 sense:

1. supporting yourself on your knees

  Familiarity information: KNEELING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNEELING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supporting yourself on your knees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

kneel; kneeling

Hypernyms ("kneeling" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Derivation:

kneel (rest one's weight on one's knees)

 Context examples 

Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When Lord Avon had left him, the captain remained for some time in a kneeling attitude, with his face sunk upon a chair.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Never! Till you tell me how I may rescue you,' swore the knight, still kneeling.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I left, at nine o'clock, she was kneeling on the ground at the Doctor's feet, putting on his shoes and gaiters for him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I could hardly prevent myself from there and then kneeling down at his feet and telling him what I had done.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two men were kneeling beside me, working over me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A question about bending, kneeling, or stooping.

(Bending, Kneeling, or Stooping, NCI Thesaurus)

A black hole yawned beneath into which we all peered, while Musgrave, kneeling at the side, pushed down the lantern.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was dozing myself in the evening when someone plucked my sleeve, and I found Challenger kneeling beside me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)