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Series of church petitions
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litany
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Litany , in Christian worship and some forms of Judaic worship , is a form of prayer used in services and processions , and consisting of a number of petitions. The word comes through Latin litania from Ancient Greek λιτανεία ( litaneía ), which in turn ...
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n. 1 A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation. 2 A prolonged or tedious account.
Usage examples of litany.
The child, with face ashy white and eyes glistening, her spirit borne aloft by the fervent strains of the litanies, was gazing at the altar, where in imagination she could see the roses multiplying and falling in cascades.
He recalled the response from the Litany against Fear as his mother had taught him out of the Bene Gesserit rite.
Something of the same dazedness that I observed upon the patrician features of Lord Godalming no doubt began to glaze my own mean little bat eyes as we both listened to this litany.
Long would be the litany were I to enregister all the fraud and treachery which they committed, either to augment their fortunes or to win the favour of the chief who wished to have kings for his subjects.
James wondered what sort of foolishness Therese had filled her ears with to prepare her to receive such a litany of social falderal without being bored to tears.
In addition to being the Sept leader, she was also a Philodox, which meant she was well versed in all the litany of the Garou and knew every rite necessary to the functioning of the Caern.
After giving the question due consideration, I briefed him on the Information Revolution, giving emphasis to the creation of the news channels, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and so forth, and the subsequent evolution of the television journalist from reporter to an interface through which the events of history were filtered, and the emergent punditocracy whose neatly packaged opinions were bleated out non-stop until they produced a litany of responses from the viewers that echoed these opinions with sheeplike unanimity.
The girls told over the ghoulish litany of the symptoms together in the dressing room in hushed scared voices, peeking at the fortune-telling mirror and seeing, not their rosy faces, but their own rouged skulls.
If you can stand a few hours of talk from an old smacksman you may hear a sombre litany of horror.
There was no reason why he should listen to the litany of anxieties by which Tuly hauled herself through life.
Shadow masked him, while his ears rang and burned to the language of wind, singing litanies over bared granite.
Baudolino, the Poet, Boron, and Kyot knelt in prayer, while at a slight distance Solomon murmured the litanies that the Jews habitually recite.
He could hear Malibu in the backseat reciting the litany of an aircraft in distress.
Te Deums, hymns and chants, choruses and quartette, litany and vespers, services, glorias and sacred cantatas.
Al-Nomani recited the litany and watched, determined to maintain the steady singsong of the nefarious quatrain no matter what happened.