Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: address, Book of Common Prayer, prayer, speech

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