Kneeling ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] That kneels (lit. and fig.).

1587.  Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1317/2. The bowed knees of kneeling hearts.

1593.  Shaks., Rich. II., V. iii. 132. O happy vantage of a kneeling knee.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 387. On the day when he told the kneeling fellows of Magdalene to get out of his sight.

  Hence Kneelingly adv., in a kneeling posture, on one’s knees.

1388.  Wyclif, Jer. xxxviii. 26. Knelyngli y puttide forth my preiris bifore the kyng.