Possible Clues:

• Common attitude among church people?
• Preparing to be knighted
• How some beg
• Notwithstanding, did this for praying
• Born student embraced by monarch is doing homage
• Beggar's bearing
• Position of the well-beaten boxer?
• Genuflecting
• Having got down to putting cayenne on the fish with the gin
• What you'll find many proposers doing