knelt

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nĕlt, IPA(key): /nɛlt/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Verb

knelt

  1. simple past and past participle of kneel.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, [] , down the nave to the western door. [] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Verb

knelt

  1. inflection of knellen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative
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