Related Clues:

• Genuflected
• Prepared to propose, perhaps
• Showed respect, in a way
• Took a position in the service?
• Prepared to be dubbed
• Showed subservience
• Kowtowed
• Bent
• Lowered oneself
• Curtsied
• Showed reverence
• Bent down
• Prepared to be knighted
• Kowtowed to
• Prepared to propose