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Noun: litany  li-t(u-)nee
  1. Any long and tedious address or recital
    "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"
Noun: Litany
  1. A form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
    "The congregation joined in the Litany responses"

Derived forms: litanies

Type of: address, prayer, speech

Part of: Book of Common Prayer

Encyclopedia: Litany