kneebound
adjEtymology From knee + bound.
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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.2009, Stephen King, Under the Dome:
- Fear is what puts butts into pews, what knocks us kneebound as if by the baton of a slavedriver.2017, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed: