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LITANY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
prayer (a fixed text used in praying)
Holonyms ("Litany" is a part of...):
Book of Common Prayer (the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any long and tedious address or recital
Example:
a litany of failures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("litany" is a kind of...):
address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)
