litany

1. n. 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. Source: opted

2. n. any long and tedious address or recital Source: wordnet

3. 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. Source: webster

4. A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of variouschurches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the formerleading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It isusually of a penitential character.Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of theGreek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker. Source: adambom

5. n:100 n. any long and tedious address or recital n. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation Source: ecdict

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