knelt

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

knelt

1. simple past tense and past participle of kneel.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

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knelt

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