litany

SEE DEFINITION OF litany

nounrecital of items, often part of religious services

Synonyms for litany

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prayer

noun. pleading, especially with a deity;

prayers

noun. pleading, especially with a deity;

Word Origin & History

c.1200, from Old French letanie and directly from Medieval Latin letania, Late Latin litania (cf. Spanish letania, Italian litania), from Greek litaneia "litany, an entreating," from lite "prayer, supplication, entreaty," of unknown origin. From notion of monotonous enumeration of petitions in Christian prayer services came generalized sense of "repeated series," early 19c., borrowed from French.

Example Sentences forlitany

This was his commendation, from hour to hour; it made up the litany of his gratitude for what she had been to him.

At 11.30 we had the Litany, at which I was able to be present, on deck.

I was able to attend the Litany at 11.30, and evening service at 4.

The petition had not yet been erased from the Litany—why should it ever have been?

They prayed for the cause of missions in their Sunday Litany.

So in a litany, published by Craig, a long series of gods is introduced.

And you and I, if we have said the Litany in spirit and in truth, have been praying for them.

The hermit was so absorbed in his litany that he heard nothing.

To accustom the Indians to his mode of worship, he commenced chanting the litany of the Virgin.

Your heart frames the responses to the litany of my remembrance.

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