kneebound

English

Etymology

knee +‎ bound

Adjective

kneebound (not comparable)

  1. on one's knees in an act of worship
    • 2009, Stephen King, Under the Dome:
      Of course they would come. Of course they would get kneebound. People enjoy an honest-to-God prayer meeting in good times and bad.
    • 2017, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed:
      Fear is what puts butts into pews, what knocks us kneebound as if by the baton of a slavedriver.
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