Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kneebound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: knee-bound
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

on one's knees in an act of worship

Example Sentences

"Of course they would come. Of course they would get kneebound. People enjoy an honest-to-God prayer meeting in good times and bad."
"Fear is what puts butts into pews, what knocks us kneebound as if by the baton of a slavedriver."

Etymology

From knee + bound.

Questions

What does kneebound mean?: on one's knees in an act of worship
Where does kneebound come from?: From knee + bound.

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