Adoration or reverence, by prostration or bending the knee.
“Coming to receive from us
Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, v 782.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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