Litany

[ UK /lˈɪtəni/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪtəni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
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How To Use Litany In A Sentence

  • He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol khans, Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
  • Most kitchen designers hear this litany of complaints at least once a week.
  • And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression; when, however, he had actually found words, behold! it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
  • the patient recited a litany of complaints
  • Bell sounds are messy and not for controlling, they also cause a litany of electronic effects such as phasing and digital delay without ever having gone through a patchbay.
  • But now everything she had once seen as colourful, lyrical, dramatic, even, was subsumed into a vast, unquenchable litany of light. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • In order to protect the guilty, Morin won't name names, which is probably just as well given the litany of scandalous events chronicled in the book.
  • Milton was swallowing, hook, line and sinker, a litany of Youth Earth Creationist arguments about geochronology—but without any religious motivation. An Ill Wind in Tortuca - The Panda's Thumb
  • This is more than just legal hair-splitting - this designation carries a litany of legal implications, from his ability to be interrogated to his rights at trial.
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