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Litany

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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Litany: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Litany: agape \| aid prayer \| Angelus \| appeal \| asperges \| aspersion \| auricular confession \| Ave \| Ave Maria \| bar mitzvah \| bas mitzvah \| beadroll \| beads \| beseechment \| bidding prayer \| breviary \| canon \| catalogue \| cataloguing \| celebration \| chaplet \| church book \| circumcision \| collect \| communion \| confession \| confirmation \| contemplation \| devotions \| entreaty \| enumeration \| euchologion \| euchology \| farse \| formulary \| grace \| Hail Mary \| high celebration \| impetration \| imploration \| incense \| intercession \| inventory \| inventorying \| invocation \| invocation of saints \| kiss of peace \| Kyrie Eleison \| lectionary \| lesser litany \| list \| listing \| love feast \| lustration \| machzor \| manual \| meditation \| missal \| obsecration \| obtestation \| ordinal \| orison \| Paternoster \| pax \| petition \| pontifical \| prayer \| prayer book \| prayer wheel \| processional \| recital \| recitation \| reciting the rosary \| ritual \| rituale \| rogation \| rosary \| rubric \| Sefer Torah \| service book \| siddur \| silent prayer \| suit \| supplication \| telling of beads \| thanks \| thanksgiving \| the confessional \| the confessionary \| Torah \| Torah scroll \| Virginal 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.

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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Litany:

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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