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Answer for the clue "Resting on knees ", 8 letters:
kneeling

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Word definitions for kneeling in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which someone kneels. vb. (present participle of kneel English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kneeling is a basic human position where one or both knees touch the ground. It is used as a resting position, during childbirth and as an expression of reverence and submission. It is possible to kneel with one leg and assume another position (such as ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kneel \Kneel\ (n[=e]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knelt (n[e^]lt) or Kneeled (n[=e]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Kneeling .] [OE. knelen, cneolien; akin to D. knielen, Dan. kn[ae]le. See Knee .] To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down. Note: ...

Usage examples of kneeling.

Reginald returned from the holding of Policrates, doubtless you met him, either on deck, or in the cabin, as a naked, kneeling slave, licking and kissing at his sea boots, begging to serve him.

If he knocks it is usually only to make his presence known to the slave, and the knock is commonly authoritative and rude, often startling her, even though she expects it, signaling her in no unclear or ambiguous fashion that she is to prepare herself, and well, to greet him, her master, which she does then in a position of docility and submission, usually kneeling and head down.

Even in my hatred, of course, I could never forget that in a corner of my heart, kneeling, there languished a love slave.

I was holding her hands over her head, together, she kneeling before me in the darkness.

On the wharves I could see kneeling pirates, being stripped and bound.

Miss Henderson, now kneeling before me, had asked to be had by me, and for a tarsk bit.

This one was mounted about a foot above the street, and was ahead of me and to my right, a bit behind the kneeling girl, and to her left.

The kneeling girl then turned and looked, pleadingly, at the girl under whose orders she was.

I stood up, and looked down upon her, kneeling on the stones, in the gray light of the Gorean dawn.

Then, joyfully, kneeling before me, she put her left cheek down upon my right thigh.

I then dried my hands on her hair, and she knelt back, kneeling on the broad carpeted dais before me, in the position of the pleasure slave.

I gather then that I may remain as I am, for the time, kneeling before you.

It is extremely difficult for a woman naked and kneeling before a man to lie.

Seeing you, remembering you from before, it did not even occur to me that I might be kneeling before one who had become, truly, a Gorean male.

The former Miss Henderson, of Earth, kneeling naked before me, now knowingly my collared slave, kissed my whip.