a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
the Litany,the supplication in this form in the Book of Common Prayer.
a recitation or recital that resembles a litany.
a prolonged or tedious account: We heard the whole litany of their complaints.
Origin of litany
before 900; <Late Latin litanīa<Late Greek litaneía litany, Greek: an entreating, equivalent to litan- (stem of litaínein, variant of litaneúein to pray) + -eia-y3; replacing Middle English letanie,Old English letanīa<Medieval Latin, Late Latin, as above
SYNONYMS FOR litany
4 list, catalog, enumeration.
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH litany
litany , liturgy
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“Our strength is in solidarity,” they say in the video, which also has English subtitles, and which features a litany of tech industry workers, many of whom say that state harassment could lead to the destruction of the tech industry in Belarus.
Belarus tech industry rallies around arrested PandaDoc colleagues in new video|Mike Butcher|September 11, 2020|TechCrunch
The Sydney-based outfit started in 1975 and quickly accrued a litany of world firsts—first commercial cycling trips in China, first commercial descent of Tasmania’s Franklin River, first group treks in Mongolia.
In many religions, a ritual repetition of prayers. Usually a clergyman or singer chants a prayer, and the congregation makes a response, such as “Lord, have mercy.”