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Litany
litany
(litanies) 1. If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client. N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n c darkgreen]disapproval 2. A litany is part of a church service in which the priest says a set group of words and the people reply, also using a set group of words. N-COUNT
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noun (plural -nies) Etymology: Middle English letanie, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French, from Late Latin litania, from Late Greek litaneia, from Greek, entreaty, from litanos suppliant Date: 13th century 1. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation 2. a. a resonant or repetitive chant a ~ of cheering phrases — Herman Wouk b. a usually lengthy recitation or enumeration a familiar ~ of complaints c. a sizable series or set a ~ of problems ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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~ n 1 a long prayer in the Christian church in which the priest says a sentence and the people reply 2 something that takes a long time to say that repeats phrases, or sounds like a list (a long litany of complaints) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 12c., from M.L. letania, from L.L. litania, from Gk. litaneia "litany, an entreating," from lite "prayer, supplication, entreaty." From notion of monotonous enumeration of petitions came generalized sense of "repeated series," 19c., borrowed from Fr. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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