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 Knee.Kneph. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Knee Tribute.
 
Adoration or reverence, by prostration or bending the knee.   1
       
“Coming to receive from us
       
Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile.”
       
Milton: Paradise Lost, v 782.
 


 Knee.Kneph. 

 
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