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litany |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Litany \Lit"a*ny\, n.; pl {Litanies}. [OE. letanie OF letanie F. litanie, L. litania, Gr ?, fr ? to pray, akin to ?, ?, to pray, ? 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. Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. --Hooker. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: litany n 1: any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints" 2: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation [syn: {Litany}]
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