Meaning of proskynesis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient Persia.
   historical, uncountable
2. The level of veneration properly given to God's creations rather than to God himself.
   uncountable

Examples

“The participants in turn drank a toast, performed proskynesis and received a kiss from the king.”

“Alexander, it seems, did attempt to impose proskynesis on both Greeks and Macedonians, and he aroused determined opposition, represented and articulated by Callisthenes of Olynthus.”

“Perhaps most notably, in 66 CE, Nero accepted a formal proskynesis from the Armenian prince Tiridates, who paid a visit to him in Rome to be crowned king of Armenia.”

“The Carolingian theologians rejected adoration of images but paid too little attention to the fine distinction between latria, the adoration due to God alone, and proskynesis, the reverence paid to the image.”

“It was proskynēsis which the worshipper at home or in church offered to an icon.”

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