'Litany' definitions:
Definition of 'litany'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"
noun
A prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
Definition of 'Litany'
From: GCIDE
- Litany \Lit"a*ny\ (l[i^]t"[.a]*n[y^]), n.; pl. Litanies (l[i^]t"[.a]*n[i^]z). [OE. letanie, OF. letanie, F. litanie, L. litania, Gr. litanei`a, fr. litaney`ein to pray, akin to li`tesqai, li`ssesqai, to pray, lith` 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. [1913 Webster]
- Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'litany'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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