Kneeling is a human position in which the weight is distributed on the knees and feet on a surface close to horizontal.
The position of kneeling may be assumed for practical reasons and for reasons of social or religious custom.
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“Man lording it over man, man kneeling to man, is a spectacle that Gabriel might well travel hitherward to behold; for never did he behold it in heaven.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)