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kneebound

adj

Etymology

From knee + bound.

  1. derived from bombus — “a humming or buzzing”
  2. derived from bombitō — “hum, buzz”
  3. derived from bondir — “leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”
  4. inherited from *bounden✻
  5. compounded as kneebound — “knee + bound”

Definitions

  1. on one's knees in an act of worship

    • Of course they would come. Of course they would get kneebound. People enjoy an honest-to-God prayer meeting in good times and bad.
    • Fear is what puts butts into pews, what knocks us kneebound as if by the baton of a slavedriver.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA