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Litany

Litany Meaning & Definition
Litany Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Litany?

[n] a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
[n] any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"

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See Also | address | Book of Common Prayer | prayer | speech

Litany In Webster's Dictionary

\Lit"a*ny\, n.; pl. {Litanies}. [OE. letanie, OF. letanie, F. litanie, L. litania, Gr. ?, fr. ? to pray, akin to ?, ?, to pray, ? prayer.] A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character. Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. --Hooker.

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