genuane.html - v.intr. bend the knee, esp. in worship or as a sign of respect.

genuflection n. (also genuflexion). genuflector n. [eccl.L genuflectere genuflex- f. L genu the knee + flectere bend]

genuane.html - adj.
1 really coming from its stated, advertised, or reputed source.
2 properly so called; not sham.
3 pure-bred.

genuinely adv. genuineness n. [L genuinus f. genu knee, with ref. to a father's acknowledging a new-born child by placing it on his knee: later associated with GENUS]

genuane.html - n.
(pl. genera)
1 Biol. a taxonomic grouping of organisms having common characteristics distinct from those of other genera, usu. containing several or many species and being one of a series constituting a taxonomic family.
2 a kind or class having common characteristics.
3 Logic kinds of things including subordinate kinds or species. [L genus -eris birth, race, stock]

genuane.html - See: IN GENERAL.

genuane.html - {n.}, {informal}, {hackneyed phrase} The difference in social values, philosophies, and manners between children and their parents, teachers and relatives which causes a lack of understanding between them and frequently leads to violent confrontations. * /My daughter is twenty and I am forty, but we have no generation gap in our family./

genuane.html - {adj. phr.} Excessively generous. * /Generous to a fault, my Aunt Elizabeth gave away all her rare books to her old college./